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Biography

Name: Homer
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Homer
8,939 words, approx. 30 pages
Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet, nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence...
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Biography of Homer
8,807 words, approx. 29 pages
Homer is the name that has come down through the centuries as the author of the two earliest surviving poetic works of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet nothing is securely known about the authorship of these poems. Such was the reverence...
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Biography of Homer
2,165 words, approx. 7 pages
Homer, the major figure in ancient Greek literature, has been universally acclaimed as the greatest poet of classical antiquity. The Iliad and the Odyssey, two long epic poems surviving in a surprisingly large number of manuscripts, are ascribed to...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Homer Summary
1,459 words, approx. 5 pages
HOMER (eighth century BCE), according to unanimous ancient Greek tradition, was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. His authorship of other epic poems and of long hexametrical hymns was already disputed in antiquity. Tradition assigns to him...
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Homer Summary
61 words, approx. 0 pages
fl. 900s-800s B.C. Greek poet who is widely credited with writing the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer, who was said to be blind, is thought to have lived in Smyrna or Chios and earned a living by telling stories. The Iliad recounts the...
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Homer Information
4,495 words, approx. 15 pages
Homer is the name given to the purported author of the early Greek poems the <i>Iliad</i> and the <i>Odyssey</i>. It is now believed by classicists (especially after the studies by Milman Parry) that they were composed by illiterate <i>aoidoi</i>...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Roll Over, Homer!
6/19/2007: 772 words, approx. 3 pages
Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with his own prose until they’re ready to stagger, or rather dance, on Off Broadway stages. Mr....
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AP News
Brewers puts together homer barrage
9/10/2007: 966 words, approx. 3 pages
The Milwaukee Brewers wasted little time making history. Then, they kept piling on.Rickie Weeks, J.J. Hardy and Ryan Braun connected off Phil Dumatrait, making Milwaukee the third team in major league history to open a game with three straight home runs, and the Brewers added...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paolo Vivante
4,707 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Vivante offers a stylistic analysis of Homer's epic verse, in particular, his use of recurrent images, analogies, and epithets.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Homer's Use of Mythology
570 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses Homer's use of mythology in his ancient classics. Describes how Homer used mythology in such a way as it it sounds realistic, hence his classics became "Bibles" to the Greeks of ancient times, and standard in every Greek's education. Details some of the Greek myths that Homer included in his writings.


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