History The Poet Homer

The poet Homer's biography of this poet is incomplete, sometimes not even sure when he lived. Homer, Homer clearly America. Homer was in the beginning of the Greek and European literature, so the poet standing. Whose name the oldest literary genre of the Greeks is connected. Heroic epic Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer was regarded in antiquity as the poet, was the great teacher and role model throughout the ancient world. The "Homeric question, the question of the poet lived and if he is what his epics, which already was in antiquity. Pisistratus had in the 6 th Century BCa revision of the text can be Homer. For 5 A century Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey to find many epics. In his works, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, which used songs and sagas. Unfortunately, coming from the second century.

In primitive tribes Greeks entered the Mediterranean world. The songs were sung by wandering bards of the food of the nobility. It is estimated today that he was not at the time of the Trojan War, but only in the second half of the 8 th century, lived (750-700 BC.) It was probably in the city of Izmir, on the river Meles, born out of wedlock by Kretheis, which is in the Ionian Asia Minor. He was baptized in the original name Melese by his stepfather, he was raised in a strict sense. His career as a teacher who was committed last.

With his friend Minds, owner of the ship, so says a document from the first century AD AC, a lot of wandering and embarked, for example likely to Lefkada, Ithaki and colophon, but has not been in all places described in this text. Blind must be returned to their homeland and sought only as a poet. But today is widely debated if he really lost his sight returned to Smyrna, as had happened in the ancient poets always represented as blind to illustrate the sculpture was a gifted poet in the field of concentration and imagination.

Then he walked away after Kyme is the Hermosebene, where he failed as a poet and rhapsodies (vocals). In Kyme was named "Homer", a derivation of the word homo horon false 'to' Love is not. "So then called all the people who were blind. When he went to Phokaia where a school teacher Homer fraudulent steel and seals in Chios sold under his name, he went to Chios, where most part of the epic emerged. He built a school and worked a fortune, married and had two daughters. He spent much of his life.

He has traveled as a famous poet in the Greek mainland that was invited. She participated in Chalcis in Euboea where he played to test the ingenuity and mastery of epic vocabulary. This contest poet Hesiod, also a famous poet, who lost, even though the hearing was by Homer. But the referee was following the presentation of two pieces of the view that peaceful acts of war and battles are honored. On the island of Chios, the majority of his work has been created, but it was not until his death, but was in Athens and other cities.

He died on the island goes, you can show your grave. The Iliad The Iliad, after the Greek city of Ilium (Troy =) are valid, as the oldest plant. 24 books in a section described by 49 days from the end of the 10-year struggle of the Greeks at Troy. Its theme is the wrath of Achilles. This, by his slave Briseis Agamemnon private, leaves Greek.Force. After his friend Patroclus, the agency led his troops has fallen, Achilles goes back to the fight. Because he wants revenge on the military leader Hector, son of King Priam. In a two-fight, which kills them. He receives from his mother Thetis forged by Hephaestus for armor (description of the plate in the book 18 meetings), and kills Hector in battle.Seal ends with the celebrations for the dead Hector, Achilles, Priam, after the body of the licensed funeral of his son. The numerous episodes of the series, besides the main story, often in violent struggles of the heroes of the gods descend. On both sides to participate in the fight against the gods. The Odyssey The Odyssey is probably to be regarded as a young man, not derivative works of Homer. It probably has a poet (Homer students) and an editor later. In 24 books, sings of the Odyssey, the odyssey of 10 years and the return of Ulysses to his wife Penelope.

The epic begins just before the return of Odysseus. He tells his rescue of his adventures, in which he was exposed to many dangers, such as the one-eyed giant Polyphemus people eater or seduction of the nymph Calypso. Parallel to this is the epic, like Penelope, awaiting the return of her husband and can only have a list of suitors at bay. She sends her son Telemachus in the exploration of lost father. When he returns home, takes revenge by killing all the suitors. Background and development over two millennia, is not always the same question to Homer: How is it possible that two should be written in content and presentation of all large different, the same man? In Alexandria, some scholars concluded that two different poets wrote these works. More precisely, the Odyssey has been written by another poet, School probably him. As I said, most of his works, a total of 90 who were present on the island of Chios, but it is still only get seven.