Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a argument between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses upon the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the slip of Troy. Many accounts of Homer’s moving picture circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread swine that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.
The Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey were composed – continues to be debated. Modern scholarship considers that the two works were written by stand-in authors. It is generally fashionable that the poems were composed at some dwindling around the late eighth or further on seventh century BC.
The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a teacher language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from swing centuries; the predominant have an effect on is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers acknowledge that the poems were originally transmitted orally. From antiquity until the present day, the involve of Homeric epic upon Western civilization has been great, inspiring many of its most well-known works of literature, music, art and film. The Homeric epics were the greatest influence on ancient Greek culture and education; to Plato, Homer was helpfully the one who “has taught Greece” – ten Hellada pepaideuken.