https://padlet.com/YiternateeT/mxqffek79zld The Greatest Epic Poet en-us 2016-10-13 16:20:46 UTC 2025-10-24 04:29:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png YiternateeT https://padlet.com/YiternateeT/mxqffek79zld/wish/130506422 Homer (aka:Hom?ros) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and the greatest of the epic poets.Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
 Homer was born 800BCE in Greece and Died 701BCE  Homer was a mystery.The Greek epic poet is and enigma insofar as far as we know.Homer was a blind man,which he wrote about based on his character in The Odyssey ,a blind poet/minstrel called Demodoks. A long disquisition on how Demodoks was welcomed into a gathering and regaled the audience with music and epic tales of conflict and heroes to much praise has been interpreted as Homer's hint as to what his own life was like.As a result, many busts and statues have been carved o homer with thick curly hair and a beard also sightless.
In his time many of us believed that Homer was the educator of all  Greece.Since then, Homer's influence had spread far beyond the frontiers of Hellas. The Iliad and The Odyssey have provided not only  seeds but fertilizer for almost all the other arts and sciences in Western culture. For the Greeks ,Homer was a godfather of their national culture,chronicling its mythology and collective memory in rich rhythm's tales that  have permeated the collective imagination.
Homer's life may remain a mystery,but the very real impact of his works continues to illuminate our world today.]]> 2016-10-13 16:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/YiternateeT/mxqffek79zld/wish/130506422 YiternateeT https://padlet.com/YiternateeT/mxqffek79zld/wish/130508758 2016-10-13 16:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/YiternateeT/mxqffek79zld/wish/130508758