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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 that the stories formed as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed by an aoidos or rhapsode and was more likely to be heard ...
Homer Reciting his Poems by Thomas Lawrence, 1790. The poem dates to the archaic period of Classical antiquity. Scholarly consensus mostly places it in the late 8th [40] century BC, although some favour a 7th-century date. [41] [42] In any case, the terminus ante quem for the dating of the Iliad is 630 BC, as evidenced by reflection in art and ...
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
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]
Adrianus (poet), wrote an epic poem on the history of Alexander the Great, of which only one line is extant. Aeschylus / ˈ ɛ s k əl ə s / (Greek: Αἰσχύλος, 525–456 BC), earliest of the three surviving Classical Athenian tragedians. Aeschylus of Alexandria, epic poet, 2nd century; Agathon (Greek Ἀγάθων) (c. 448–400 BC)
The poems themselves contradicted the general belief in the existence and authorship of Homer. There were many variants, which there should not have been according to the single-author conviction. The simplest answer was to decide which of the variants was most likely to represent a presumed authentic original composition and to discount the ...
Homer (fl. 8th c. BCE), Greek epic poet; Thomas Hood (1799–1845), English humorist and poet; father of playwright and editor Tom Hood; A. D. Hope (1907–2000), Australian satirical poet and essayist; Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and Jesuit priest; Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–08 BCE), Roman lyric poet
Together with Homer, whose Iliad covers a mere 50 days of the war, they cover the complete war "cycle", thus the name. Most modern scholars place Homer in the 8th century BC. The other poets listed below seemed to have lived in the 7th to the 5th centuries BC. Excluding Homer's, none of the works of the cyclic poets has survived.