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The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BC and, by the mid-6th century BC, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity , Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and ...
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's Odyssey. [1] It is divided into twenty-four rhapsodies as is the original Odyssey and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses. Kazantzakis began working on it in 1924 after he returned to Crete from Germany. Before finally publishing the ...
Homeric Greek is the form of the Greek language that was used in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Homeric Hymns.It is a literary dialect of Ancient Greek consisting mainly of an archaic form of Ionic, with some Aeolic forms, a few from Arcadocypriot, and a written form influenced by Attic. [1]
In Homer's Odyssey, Demoptolemus (/ ˌ d ɛ m ə p ˈ t ɒ l ɪ m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Δημοπτόλεμος, romanized: Dēmoptólemos) was one of the 108 suitors of the queen of Ithaca, Penelope. [1] [2] He came from Dulichium along with 51 other suitors. [3]
In the pre-hoplite phase of Greek military evolution, the well-armed aristocrat was the major focus of military action, placed at the apex of his less well-armed dependants. [2] This was reflected in the Homeric division between nobility and commoners, [ 3 ] and in the regular epic struggles over the armour of the former, once fallen in their ...
In Greek mythology, the name Telepylos is mentioned in the Odyssey (k 82, ps 318) the city or country of the Laistrygons ("laistrygonii"). The name, from tele- = far and the door, perhaps according to some authors has the meaning of "eurypylos, megalopylos", or "macropylos" (Eustathius: "at a distance from each other, but next to the doors or at the length " ).
In Ancient Greek epic tradition recounted in Homer's Odyssey, Polybus (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ b ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πόλυβος) was the father of a suitor, Eurymachus, [1] who was killed by Odysseus once he returned from his 10-year journey during the Trojan War.
Lucius Livius Andronicus (/ ˈ l ɪ v i ə s /; Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 – c. 204 BC) [1] [2] was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period during the Roman Republic. He began as an educator in the service of a noble family, producing Latin translations of Greek works, including Homer ...