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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?
Oct 18, 2023 · Homer still sits at the apex of western literature thanks to the beauty and influence of his verse. Robin Lane Fox has been teaching the epics for fifty years and studying them for many more.
Jul 4, 2019 · Homer’s specificity within the Iliad allows the audience to learn the collective Ancient Greek sense of a collective identity. When there were times of crisis for the Ancient Greeks, the famous text became a unifying factor which signified the glory of the great Achilles.
Aristotle in the Poetics famously praises Homer for his narrative focus, and this focus does indeed bring the massive down to a human scale and make all the complicated goings-on easier to relate to. And relate to Homer’s poems we all do—and have done for almost three millennia.
This chapter considers how institutional contexts can affect the reading of Homer. Specifically, it examines the role of ‘great books’ courses at US universities as the predominant educational context for the reading of the Homeric epics in the United States during the 20th century.
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born in Boston and raised in rural Cambridge, he began his career as a commercial printmaker, first in Boston and then in New York, where he settled in 1859.
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Jun 16, 2024 · Homer, the legendary ancient Greek poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, remains an enigmatic figure. Though his epics profoundly influenced Western literature, little is definitively known about his life, leaving his true biography shrouded in mystery.
