Homer: A Home For The Epic Poet

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A place for thoughts, links, quotes, ideas, and poetry about the works and life of Homer.

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Wilson has a great translation of Odyssey, and a great youtube channe. Although I think that the youtube readings are in English I would love to hear Wilson's Homeric Greek.

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I cried every page through this book. I loved it, and it gave my years of reading Homer a really great dusting off. The author loved the source material and love.

i haven't read Circe. And probably won't. When an author finds a way into me with such vivid sublimity I would rather accept that one golden moment and let everyone else have the rest.

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Son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus' Aristeia

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Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad is certainly a translation to read, but likely not the first one to read. His preface is a joy for fans of Homer, though.

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I just finished Pope's translation of The Iliad. I found it very tight to Homer's ancient Greek of the five translations I have read. That said I did not enjoy the Romanization of the Greek gods' names.

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An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.

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How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.

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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.

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There is just one moment in the Iliad that writing or a hint of what writing was mentioned, and it is a direct reference to the ancient Greek hero Bellerophon's tales. How does this relate to the Homeric Question ?