Information About Homer
Outline about homer
1)Homer's Personal Traits
A)Unknown
I)His age is unknown
II)Not so many hints on personality
(1)He did give a few hints (See 2)
III)How long he lived is or birth place is unknown
IV)Quite possibly Asiatic Greek
V)Suposedly blind, and recited his poems to other people
2)Concering The Illiad and The Odyssey
A)Grest poems of all time
B)content
I)The Odyssey gives hints of his personality
(1)e.g.: Homer on Demodokos: He is "Divine singer to whom the god gave the delight of singing whenever his soul prompted him".
(2)e.g.: Homer on Demodokos: He is called an "Honored minstrel whom the Muse befriends-yet she gave him both good and bad, in that she conferred on him sweet song but deprived him of his eyesight
(II) The Odyssey might be source of misunderstanding of the social conditions during Homer's time, as they are considered rich.
(III)in The Illiad, Homer depicted natural landforms and outher topography with accuracy, allowing a safe inference that he was actually there.
(1) e.g:some lines show this, such as how the sea god Poseidon was sitting on the highest pick of the samothrace island "whence all of Ida was visible and the city of Priam and ships of the Achaeans." If you were in Troy, you could have seen the tallest point of samothrace
(IV)The Odyssey lost that accurcy, allowing a safe inference that he did not explore those regions
C) The Illiad, is about the Trojan War and the Odyssey is about Odysseus' wandrings.
3) more history
a)Arguents about his works originated from Homer and Homeridae(Homer's followers)
b)He lived before 776 B.C.E.
C) the poems he made set the foundation for the human society, and was important in early history.
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