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 +In the [[classical tradition|Western classical tradition]], '''Homer''' is the author of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]'', and is revered as the greatest of [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[Epic poetry|epic poets]]. These epics lie at the beginning of the [[Western canon]] of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of [[literature]].
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 +When he lived is unknown. [[Herodotus]] estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around [[850s BC|850 BC]], while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the [[Trojan War]], in the early 12th century BC. Modern researchers appear to place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC.
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 +The formative influence played by the Homeric epics in shaping [[Culture of Greece|Greek culture]] was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary [[papyrus]] finds.
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 +==See also==
 +*[[Homer's Contest]] by Nietzsche
 +===Topics===
 +*[[Catalogue of Ships]]
 +*[[Achaeans (Homer)]]
 +*[[Achilles]]
 +*''[[Aeneid]]''
 +*[[Aoidos]]
 +*[[Ancient accounts of Homer]]
 +*[[Aristarchus of Samothrace]]
 +*[[Bibliomancy]]
 +*[[Catalogue of Ships]]
 +*[[Cyclic Poets]]
 +*[[Dactylic hexameter]]
 +*[[Deception of Zeus]]
 +*[[Epic Cycle]]
 +*[[Epic poetry]]
 +*[[Epithets in Homer]]
 +*[[Geography of the Odyssey]]
 +*[[Greek mythology]]
 +*[[Hector]]
 +*[[Historicity of the Iliad]]
 +*[[Homer's Ithaca]]
 +*[[Homeric Greek]]
 +*[[Homeric nod]]
 +*[[Homeric Question]]
 +*[[Homeric scholarship]]
 +*[[Ithaca]]
 +*[[Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus)]]
 +*[[List of characters in the Iliad]]
 +*[[Odysseus]]
 +*[[Peisistratos (Athens)]]
 +*[[Rhapsode]]
 +*[[Shield of Achilles]]
 +*''[[Sortes Homerica]]''
 +*''[[Tabula Iliaca]]''
 +*''[[Telemachy]]''
 +*[[The Golden Bough (mythology)]]
 +*[[Trojan Battle Order]]
 +*[[Trojan War]]
 +*[[Trojan War in art and literature]]
 +*[[Troy]]
 +*[[Troy VII]]
 +*[[Venetus A]] Manuscript
 +*[[Zenodotus]] of Ephesus
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 +===Modern scholars===
 +*[[Richard Bentley]]
 +*[[Ioannis Kakridis]]
 +*[[Adolf Kirchhoff]]
 +*[[Geoffrey Kirk]]
 +*[[Karl Lachmann]]
 +*[[Walter Leaf]]
 +*[[Albert Lord]]
 +*[[David Binning Monro]]
 +*[[Karl Otfried Müller]]
 +*[[Gilbert Murray]]
 +*[[Gregory Nagy]]
 +*[[Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch]]
 +*[[Milman Parry]]
 +*[[Barry B. Powell]]
 +*[[Heinrich Schliemann]]
 +*[[William Bedell Stanford]]
 +*[[Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison]]
 +*[[Alan Wace]]
 +*[[Martin Litchfield West]]
 +*[[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]]
 +*[[Friedrich August Wolf]]
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In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.

When he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC, while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC. Modern researchers appear to place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC.

The formative influence played by the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds.

See also

Topics

Modern scholars




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