Homer

The Iliad

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Produktbeschreibung

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem set during the Trojan War. It tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The Iliad is paired with The Odyssey considered somewhat of a sequel, is among the oldest works of Western literature. Homer is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. His epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781483703558
• ISBN-10: 148370355X
• Artikelnr.: 40312894

Autorenporträt

Homer is the name ascribed by the Ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature. 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. The modern scholarly consensus is that these traditions do not have any historical value.The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, where he is referred to as the protos didaskalos, "first teacher", of tragedy, the hegemon paideias, "leader of learning" and the one who ten Hellada pepaideuken, "has taught Greece". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.