Skip to main content

Homer The history | The date of Homer, and the transcription | References | Navigation menu"Homer""rogueclassicism: Homer a Woman?""Controversies in History: Date of Homer""Homer Biography - List of Works, Study Guides & Essays - GradeSaver""Homer""Homer buried in Ios island - Greeka.com"eeWorldCat Identities224924963n780956390000 0003 6354 151X11855333X189316026924005cb11907688f(data)90069675500279109b721f499-8caa-4442-a411-568807b144643520420000443699jn19981001474ITICCUCFIV18814000082457XX907843DA00258983w6qz9r2d

Ancient Greek poets


Greekepic poemsMycenaean cultureTrojan warGreek Dark AgealphabeticwomanlegendblindIoniaarchaeologicalHerodotusTrojan WarEratosthenes












Homer




From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia






Jump to navigation
Jump to search


This article is about the Ancient Greek. For the tv character, see Homer Simpson.



Homer and his guide, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905)


Homer is the name of the Greek poet who wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.[1] These are the earliest works of Greek literature which have survived to the present day, and are among the greatest treasures of the ancient world. They are a product of Mycenaean culture. The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan war, which took place around 1190 BC. The manuscripts of Homer were written much later, probably later than 800 BC.



The history |


What makes the history of this period so difficult is that the Mycenaean civilization was followed by several hundred years of decline, from which little or no writing has survived. This period, the Greek Dark Age, ended around 800 BC, when once again we find Greek writing, though this time in their newly developed alphabetic script. Therefore, there is a distinct possibility that the Homeric epics had a life, perhaps a long life, as oral literature, spoken by story-tellers.


We know little about Homer, and the later Greeks also knew little about him. Some have doubted he was a real person; others think he was a woman.[2]
A legend, has it that he was a blind poet who lived in Ionia. There is no definite evidence for any of these ideas.


There is archaeological evidence that Troy existed. The site of Troy has been discovered, and excavated. Therefore, it is a fair guess that the epic began as a long oral poem based on the siege of Troy, but with details added and changed as time went on.[3] Virtually every feature of Homer's poetry is due to the economy forced on it by oral methods of composition.[4][5]



The date of Homer, and the transcription |


The date of Homer's existence is not known. Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC;[6][7][8][9][10][11] but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the time of the Trojan War.[12] The date of the Trojan War was given as 1194–1184 BC by Eratosthenes.


Today, "the date of Homer" means the date of the writing down the oral poems, rather than the life of Homer. This is called the transcription date. The language suggests that the earliest possible date for the transcription is 800 BC, and the latest possible date is 600 AD.[13]



References |




  1. ↑ "Homer". wsu.edu..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ↑ "rogueclassicism: Homer a Woman?". www.atrium-media.com.


  3. ↑ E. Bakker 1997. Poetry in speech: orality and Homeric discourse. Ithaca NY.
    ISBN 0-8014-3295-2


  4. ↑ Parry, Milman 1971. The making of Homeric verse: the collected papers of Milman Parry. (ed Adam Parry) Oxford.


  5. ↑ Ong, Walter. Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word. Methuen, London & N.Y. Milman Parry's discovery, p20–27.


  6. ↑ Herodotus 2.53.


  7. ↑ "Controversies in History: Date of Homer".


  8. ↑ GradeSaver. "Homer Biography - List of Works, Study Guides & Essays - GradeSaver". www.gradesaver.com.


  9. ↑ "Homer". www.nndb.com.


  10. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NtFnt7Nod-0J:www1.pu.edu.tw/~bmon/Literature/Iliad.doc&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


  11. ↑ "Homer buried in Ios island - Greeka.com". Greeka.


  12. ↑ Graziosi, Barbara (2002). The invention of Homer. Cambridge. pp. 98–101. 


  13. ↑ Nagy, Gregory (2001). Homeric poetry and problems of multiformity: the Panathenaic Bottleneck. 96. Classical Philology. pp. 109–119. 



















Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homer&oldid=6558017"










Navigation menu


























(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function()mw.config.set("wgPageParseReport":"limitreport":"cputime":"0.464","walltime":"0.605","ppvisitednodes":"value":2233,"limit":1000000,"ppgeneratednodes":"value":0,"limit":1500000,"postexpandincludesize":"value":58500,"limit":2097152,"templateargumentsize":"value":2310,"limit":2097152,"expansiondepth":"value":13,"limit":40,"expensivefunctioncount":"value":0,"limit":500,"unstrip-depth":"value":1,"limit":20,"unstrip-size":"value":21680,"limit":5000000,"entityaccesscount":"value":1,"limit":400,"timingprofile":["100.00% 488.015 1 -total"," 54.76% 267.216 1 Template:Reflist"," 20.67% 100.856 1 Template:Citeweb"," 13.06% 63.748 1 Template:About"," 12.46% 60.812 2 Template:Cite_journal"," 10.92% 53.273 1 Template:ISBN"," 10.73% 52.370 1 Template:Commonscat"," 10.41% 50.809 2 Template:Citation/core"," 6.75% 32.926 1 Template:Authority_control"," 6.55% 31.974 1 Template:Wikiquote-en"],"scribunto":"limitreport-timeusage":"value":"0.163","limit":"10.000","limitreport-memusage":"value":4022131,"limit":52428800,"cachereport":"origin":"mw1299","timestamp":"20190702105444","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false););"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Homer","url":"https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer","sameAs":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6691","mainEntity":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6691","author":"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects","publisher":"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-hor-googpub.png","datePublished":"2004-07-17T10:17:47Z","dateModified":"2019-05-28T17:22:58Z","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_Homer_and_his_Guide_%281874%29.jpg","headline":"ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally considered as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey"(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function()mw.config.set("wgBackendResponseTime":113,"wgHostname":"mw1326"););
-

Popular posts from this blog

Get product attribute by attribute group code in magento 2get product attribute by product attribute group in magento 2Magento 2 Log Bundle Product Data in List Page?How to get all product attribute of a attribute group of Default attribute set?Magento 2.1 Create a filter in the product grid by new attributeMagento 2 : Get Product Attribute values By GroupMagento 2 How to get all existing values for one attributeMagento 2 get custom attribute of a single product inside a pluginMagento 2.3 How to get all the Multi Source Inventory (MSI) locations collection in custom module?Magento2: how to develop rest API to get new productsGet product attribute by attribute group code ( [attribute_group_code] ) in magento 2

Image
Is it safe to keep the GPU on 100% utilization for a very long time? What happens when the drag force exceeds the weight of an object falling into earth? shebang or not shebang The unknown and unexplained in science fiction Are wands in any sort of book going to be too much like Harry Potter? How do I minimise waste on a flight? Concatenate all values of the same XML element using XPath/XQuery Did any early RISC OS precursor run on the BBC Micro? Single supply non-inverting amplifier using op amp Employee is self-centered and affects the team negatively Why always 4...dxc6 and not 4...bxc6 in the Ruy Lopez Exchange? TikZ/PGF draw algorithm Learning how to read schematics, questions about fractional voltage in schematic How can I test a shell script in a "safe environment" to avoid harm to my computer? A♭ major 9th chord in Bach is unexpectedly dissonant/jazzy What detail can Hubble see on Mars? Drug Testing and Prescribed Medications Justific
Read more

Category:9 (number) SubcategoriesMedia in category "9 (number)"Navigation menuUpload mediaGND ID: 4485639-8Library of Congress authority ID: sh85091979ReasonatorScholiaStatistics

Image
Natural numbersSquare numbersCategories requiring diffusion Help Category:9 (number) From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Jump to navigation Jump to search number: 9 (nine) instance of: natural number, deficient number, square number, composite number, odd number, centered cube number, centered octagonal number and nonagonal number other integers: -8 • -4 • -2 • -1 • 0 • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 -20 • 0 • 10 • 20 • 30 • 40 • 50 • 60 • 70 • 80 • 90 • 100 • 110 • 120 • 130 • 140 • 150 • 160 • 170 • 180 • 190 • 200 This category has become too crowded. It should list very few images directly. Files should be moved to subcategories where appropriate. New subcategories can be created. Some files need to be moved elsewhere. Search for more categories: fulltext, Main Page, topics, meta categories. Please remove or replace this tag
Read more

Magento 2.3: How do i solve this, Not registered handle, on custom form?How can i rewrite TierPrice Block in Magento2magento 2 captcha not rendering if I override layout xmlmain.CRITICAL: Plugin class doesn't existMagento 2 : Problem while adding custom button order view page?Magento 2.2.5: Overriding Admin Controller sales/orderMagento 2.2.5: Add, Update and Delete existing products Custom OptionsMagento 2.3 : File Upload issue in UI Component FormMagento2 Not registered handleHow to configured Form Builder Js in my custom magento 2.3.0 module?Magento 2.3. How to create image upload field in an admin form

Image
2000s (or earlier) cyberpunk novel: dystopia, mega storm, omnipresent noise How important is it for multiple POVs to run chronologically? PhD: When to quit and move on? Motorcyle Chain needs to be cleaned every time you lube it? Why do most airliners have underwing engines, while business jets have rear-mounted engines? How to supply water to a coastal desert town with no rain and no freshwater aquifers? How come a desk dictionary be abridged? What's the big deal about the Nazgûl losing their horses? Is this standard Japanese employment negotiations, or am I missing something? Should I increase my 401(k) contributions, or increase my mortgage payments Is there a way to change the aspect ratio of a DNG file? Why is there paternal, for fatherly, fraternal, for brotherly, but no similar word for sons? What can a novel do that film and TV cannot? Is conquering your neighbors to fight a greater enemy a valid strategy? /api/sitecore is not working in CD server
Read more