Examples of Homer in the following topics:
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- Whether and when Homer lived is unknown.
- Most modern researchers place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BCE.
- The formative influence of the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the "Teacher of Greece."
- Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds.
- Idealized portrayal of Homer dating to the Hellenistic period; located at the British Museum.
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- The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and
consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the author of the Iliad and the
Odyssey; it also questions the historicity of the two books.
- Many scholars agree that regardless of who
authored Homer’s works, it is highly likely that the poems attributed to him
were part of a generations-old oral tradition, with many scholars believing the
works to be transcribed some time in the 6th century BCE or earlier.
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estimates place the events of Homer’s Trojan War as preceding the Greek Dark
Ages, of approximately 1250 to 750 BCE.
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- The grave site was excavated by Heinrich Schleimann in 1876, who excavated ancient sites such as Mycenae and Troy based on the writings of Homer and was determined to find archaeological remains that aligned with observations discussed in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- The archaeological methods of the nineteenth century were fairly different than those of the twenty-first century and Schleimann's desire to discover remains that aligned with mythologies and Homeric stories did not seem as unusual as it does today.
- Schleimann called the most famous of the death mask the Mask of Agamemnon, under the assumption that this was the burial site of the Homeric king.
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- They placed Homer Plessy a man of mixed heritage in a white-only train car.
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- Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry, claimed that his constitutional rights had been violated when he was forced to move to a "colored's only car" while riding a train.
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- Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey are my two favorite epic poems.
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- This two- to three-century span of history is also known as the Homeric Age.
- It is believed that the Homeric epics The Iliad and The Odyssey were first recited around this time.
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- Homer Stille Cummings, Solicitor General of the United States, 1920,
Harris & Ewing
- Solicitor General Homer Stillé Cummings.
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- Joyce was an Irishman best known for A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and his milestone work published in
1922, Ulysses, which reflected the
episodes in Homer’s Odyssey.
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- He encouraged and advised Leontius Pilatus's translation of Homer from a manuscript purchased by Boccaccio, although he was severely critical of the result.