If the soul of Homer is able to see and hear everything that happened and was said in connection with the life and work of this ancient Greek poet, it would surely find a reason to have fun. On the one hand, Homer was widely known - mankind got two grandiose literary monuments - the poem "The Iliad".
and "Odyssey", on which the education system of ancient Greece was based;
He spoke of his tragedies – “these are crumbs from the great feasts of Homer.” Plutarch The Iliad was Alexander the Great's
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If the soul of Homer is able to see and hear everything that happened and was said in connection with the life and work of this ancient Greek poet, it would surely find a reason to have fun.
On the one hand, Homer was widely known - mankind got two grandiose literary monuments - the poem "The Iliad".
and "Odyssey", on which the education system of ancient Greece was based;
Plutarch The Iliad was Alexander the Great's favorite fiction. There is a work "Competition of Homer and Hesiod", which tells about the meeting of poets on the island of Euboea, when each of them read their best poems. The works of Homer were well known in Byzantium, even Byzantine lists of poems were preserved, which is surprising for the literature of antiquity. It is believed that the final version of the poems (before that they existed in oral form) was created under the Athenian tyrant Pisistratus in the middle of the 6th century BC.
Wanting to shed light on the mystery of Homer’s existence and the authenticity of his authorship, archaeologist
Nikolai Gnedich 1829, which is still considered one of the best. /