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Jun 3, 2022 · Homer described the city of Troy with incredible detail, writing about its monumental architecture and grand palaces with lavish and floral language. Historians have compared Homer’s city of Troy to the architecture of the Mycenaean Greeks, which dates from around 1200 BCE.
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Jul 4, 2019 · Homer’s Iliad tells a modern audience much about the lives of the Ancient Greeks and the text’s survival for a prolonged period of time after its original conception demonstrates the extent to which memory was a vital belief and social custom of the Ancient Greeks.
Mar 7, 2016 · The Zeus model, variously adapted on the coins of Ios and Smyrna, in the Modena bust and, I argue, in the Houston head is key to understanding why Homer may be represented as sighted.
Jul 31, 2014 · Homer and the timeless, beating heart of western culture. A new study of Homer explains his importance and enduring relevance through the ages – an attempt that’s most successful in describing the way the poetry reaches across the centuries.
May 22, 2018 · Homer’s Odyssey has topped our poll of 100 Stories that Shaped the World. Natalie Haynes looks at why the epic poem has survived for millennia. If any story can be considered the greatest tale...
Like his own conception of Ocean, which he says is the source of every river and spring, Homer provides the model and the origin of every department of eloquence. No one surely has surpassed him in sublimity in great themes, or in propriety in small.
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Apr 16, 2015 · Homer wrote the The Iliad and The Odyssey 4,000 years ago, so why are they still such a central part of western culture?
