Biography of Homer

Homer odyssey, iliad, definition, quotes, books, poems, facts, contributions

Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central 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 Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, around 20 years after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider them legends.

Highlights:

1 Works attributed to Homer

2 Ancient biographies of Homer

3 History of Homeric scholarship

3.1 Ancient

3.2 Modern

3.3 Contemporary

4 Historicity of the Homeric epics and Homeric society

5 Homeric language

6 Homeric style

7 Textual transmission

8 See also

9 Notes

10 Selected bibliography

10.1 Editions

10.2 Interlinear translations

10.3 English translations

10.4 General works on Homer

10.5 Influential readings and interpretations

10.6 Commentaries

10.7 Dating the Homeric poems

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