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	Homer - LoveToKnow 1911
		The contention for Homer, in short, began at a time when his real history was lost, and he had become a sort of mythical figure, an " eponymous hero," or personification of a great school of poetry.
		The earliest mention of the name of Homer is found in a fragment of the philosopher Xenophanes (of the 6th century B.e., or possibly earlier), who complains of the false notions implanted through the teaching of Homer.
		The use of that dialect (instead of Aeolic) by the Boeotian poet Hesiod, in a kind of poetry which was not of the Homeric type, tends to the conclusion that the literary ascendancy of the epic dialect was anterior to the Iliad and Odyssey, and independent of the influence exercised by these poems.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Homer (17074 words)

	Homer - Encyclopedia.com
		The study of Homer was required of all Greek students in antiquity, and his heroes were worshiped in many parts of Greece.
		Homer was born to George W. and Alice R. (Timpson) Ashton on September 25, 1937.
		Homer, sweet homer: the city in Southeast Alaska is where many of the state's residents go for a vacation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Homer.html (1799 words)

	Homer - Books and Biography
		It is arguable that in one incident of the Odyssey the poet may be giving a glimpse of himself in the guise of a bard whom he calls Demodokos and whom he introduces to the court of the Phaeacian king, where the shipwrecked Odysseus is being generously entertained.
		It is probable that Homer's name was applied to two distinct individuals differing in temperament and artistic accomplishment, born perhaps as much as a century apart, but practicing the same traditional craft of oral composition and recitation.
		Although each became known as "Homer," it may be (as one ancient source asserts) that homros was a dialectical lonic word for a blind man and so came to be used generically of the old and often sightless wandering reciters of heroic legends in the traditional meter of unrhymed dactylic hexameters.
	www.readprint.com /author-47/-Homer (1121 words)

	Poet of the sea - Telegraph
		Homer was entirely self-taught: his father was a hardware importer and his mother an amateur watercolourist, both of whom encouraged him to paint.
		Homer's long and fruitful career was followed by the posthumous misfortune of attaining his greatest celebrity at a time - the first half of the 20th century - when America was at its richest and most culturally acquisitive.
		Homer spent much of the later 1860s painting children at play, as if seeking in their innocence an image to block out the darker images of war.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/02/26/svart26.xml&page=1 (797 words)

	Island of Freedom - Homer
		Homer writes nothing of himself in his poems, but similes in the Iliad and the Odyssey frequently make reference to the humble lives of farmers and artisans, so it is sometimes conjectured that Homer was of this class.
		For the later epic poets of Western literature, Homer was the greatest influence (even when, as in the case of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the poets did not know the works of Homer directly).
		The Aeneid of Roman poet Virgil, for instance, is a refutation of the individualistic value system of the Homeric epic; and the most Homeric scenes in Paradise Lost, by English poet John Milton—-those stanzas describing the battle in heaven—-are essentially comic.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /HOMER.HTM (1252 words)

	Homer
		Homer was the major figure of ancient Greek literature and the author of the earliest and finest epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
		It is likely that Homer and his audience were members of a preliterate, oral culture and that his poems were written down long after their original composition.
		The Homeric tradition in literature inspired William Shakespeare's tragic and antiheroic Troilus and Cressida (1609) and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), which transports the deeds of Odysseus to the setting of 20th-century Dublin.
	library.thinkquest.org /17709/people/homer.htm (719 words)

	Exhibition: Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea
		Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is a household name in America, considered by many to be America’s greatest artist.
		Homer’s watercolours are some of the best anywhere, crystalline in freshness and quality.
		Homer painted fine military scenes, inventive images of domestic life, portrayals of fl experience, but he is perhaps at his most magical in his landscapes and seascapes, both in oil and watercolour.
	www.artmagick.com /exhibitions/exhibition.aspx?id=269 (178 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Homer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Homer is the name traditionally given to the ancient Greek poet who's believed to have composed the Iliad and Odyssey, the two major epics of Greek antiquity.
		It is probable that Homer would go from house to house or palace to palace and tell his stories for a meal and a sleeping place for the night.
		Whoever Homer was, or how many he was, and what time he lived, there's only one certain thing we know, and that is we know nothing about him at all.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_homer.html (1476 words)

	Eleganza: Bronze Bust of Homer Greek Poet
		Homer was known as the blind Greek poet.
		Greek poet Homer is thought to have compiled the two greatest epics known to man: The Iliad and the Odyssey.
		Homer the Greek poet has given us the relationships between mortals and immortals and the character and attributes of these gods and goddesses.
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	Poet homer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The epic poems Homer is credited with appear to have been composed in the 8th Century BC, 300-400 years after the supposed fall of Troy poet homer..
		The shield in Homer's poem, made for Achilles by Hephæstus, god of fire and metallurgy, was evidently such a map of the universe as conceived by the early.
		Homer writes nothing of himself in his poems, but similes in the Iliad and the poet homer.
	www.exclusivenews.net /poet-homer.html (414 words)

	Homer - Biography and Works
		Homer was A Greek poet, to whom are attributed the great epics, the Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings.
		Arguments have long raged over whether his works are in fact by the same hand, or have their origins in the lays of Homer and his followers (Homeridae), and there seems little doubt that the works were originally based on current ballads which were much modified and extended.
		The poet Homer is a bit of a riddle himself: tradition holds that he was blind, and various Greek cities claim to be his birthplace, but otherwise there is not much we know for sure about the man (or woman, as some scholars have claimed!) who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssee.
	www.online-literature.com /homer (438 words)

	Homer
		Not that any reliance is to be placed on the details of the old Greek lives of Homer, which are manifestly fictitious; but the internal evidence of the epics themselves leads to the belief in an authorship such as agrees substantially with the kernel from which these very ancient legendary traditions were developed.
		The Ionic dialect used by Homer is, in fact, a highly cultivated shoot of the old Hellenic stock, and which was in the poet's hands so perfect for the highest poetical purposes as to have remained the model for the epic style during the whole period of the literature of the Greeks.
		In order to understand Homer, we must look on him as the culmination of the minstrel or ballad poetry, in the shape of the minstrel epos; a grand combination of popular ballad materials and ballad tone, elevated to the highest pitch of which it is capable, with the architectural form and structure of the epos.
	www.nndb.com /people/841/000087580 (621 words)

	Homer - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online
		To ancient Greeks, Homer was the single maker–a blind itinerant performer like the poet Demodocus depicted in the eighth book of The Odyssey.
		Aristotle agreed with Pindar that Homer was born in Smyrna, on the coast of modern-day Turkey, and enjoyed years of fame on the Aegean island of Chios.
		The issue is devoted to debates and questions concerning the historical Homer.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/homer.htm (894 words)

	Homer (9th century B.C.)
		And although these supernatural beings take part in the action of Homeric story, and interfere with the course of natural events, their action and interference are so defined and limited, that the story preserves its natural interest, and the men and women gain rather than lose by the presence of the superhuman.
		Homer is a key to the Greek view of life and of the world.
		In the drama, tragedians found their subjects in the Homeric tale; the plays of Æschylus were "morsels from the feast of Homer," while the spirit of Greek tragedy breathes already in many Homeric scenes:--the parting of hector, the house of Priam after Hector's death, the ransoming of Hector's body.
	www.usefultrivia.com /biographies/homer_001.html (1844 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Homer was even at one time credited with the entire Epic Cycle, which included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons.
		The aims and achievements of Homeric studies have changed over the course of the millennia; in the last few centuries they have revolved around the process by which the Homeric poems came into existence and were transmitted down to us, first orally, and later in writing.
		The proof that Homer does not belong to that school, and that his poetry is not in any true sense ballad-poetry is furnished by the higher artistic structure of his poems, and, as regards style by the fourth of the qualities distinguished by Arnold, the quality of nobleness.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Homer (2785 words)

	Poet : Homer The Poet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		M.W. Edwards 1987, Homer, Poet of the Iliad, Baltimore.
		The poet Homer is a bit of a riddle himself: tradition holds that he was blind,...
		Homer is believed to have been blind, because the poet Demodokos in the Odyssey was blind.
	homer-the-poet.beltwaypoet.com (1307 words)

	health-Winslow Homer- Poet of the Sea
		Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea offers here a fresh exploration of Homer and his career-long preoccupation with the relationship between humans and the waters that define their world.
		The moving emotional undertones of his seascapes emerge in the compelling full-color reproductions featured in the catalog, as his paintings simultaneously capture the unique landscape of their geographic settings, the universality of man’s relationship to the sea, and issues of pictorial representation in general.
		Winslow Homer (1836-1910) devoted much of his life to a study of the ocean and the people whose lives were intertwined with it.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_health/A_winslow_homer_poet_o-0932171508.htm (627 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Poet Homer
		Scholars debated (and some still do) for decades about whether there was an actual man known as Homer, or if instead the pair of epic poems were composed over time, by a series of storytellers, and were eventually written down.
		Although this is a fascinating issue, as it reveals that the Greeks were at one point a primarily oral society, the question itself is essentially moot.
		In these works of Homer, relationships between mortals and immortals are established, and the very character and attributes of the gods and goddesses are codified.
	www.loggia.com /myth/homer.html (406 words)

	Who really wrote 'Odyssey,' 'Iliad'? / Evidence points not to Homer, not to any man, but to a woman
		The poet's words were not his own; they belonged to the Muses, a posse of art-inspiring goddesses who could easily take back their gifts.
		Dalby speculates that both epics were the work of a single poet because "The Odyssey" functions as a sequel to "The Iliad": A different poet would have tried to outdo "The Iliad" by writing better versions of the same stories.
		Dalby speculates that a male poet, "tied to the demands of live audiences," would have balked at this "wholly unfamiliar and apparently unrewarding activity." A female poet would have been used to performing in private.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/23/RVG07JTU521.DTL&type=books%3Cbr%3E%3C/a%3E (841 words)

	Ancient Greek Online library \| Homer
		Homer (Greek ?μηρος Homeros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War"), the corpus of Homeric Hymns, and various other lost or fragmentary works such as Margites.
		Tradition held that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace, but otherwise his biography is a blank slate.
		It has repeatedly been questioned whether the same poet was responsible for both the Iliad and the Odyssey; the Batrachomyomachia, Homeric hymns and cyclic poems are generally agreed to be later than these two epic poems.
	www.greektexts.com /library/Homer (403 words)

	Mr. Dowling's Homer Page
		The epics’ dialect suggests that Homer came from the western coast of the modern nation of Turkey.
		Greek legends suggest that Homer was blind, but the vivid imagery of the Iliad and the Odyssey suggest that the author of the poems must have had sight at some point in his life.
		Modern scholars believe that the epics were based on oral legends, but it would be difficult for many people to memorize the long epics.
	www.mrdowling.com /701-homer.html (178 words)

	Ithaka and the epic poet Homer
		The island of Ithaka is known in the whole world through the epic poet Homer, as the birthplace, the kingdom and the beloved, patria of the resourceful Odysseus who was the most popular character in the Greek Mythology.
		The legend has it that the island took its name from its first settler "Ithacus", who was the son of the Olympian god of the sea Poseidon.
		Finally in the 21st of May 1864 Ithaka Island together with all the other Ionian islands were united with Greece.
	www.ionian-cruises.com /ithaka.htm (904 words)

	The Argolid - JustGreece.com
		The magic of the shores of the Argolid, the bald mountains, golden valleys, the grandeur of the monuments and the eternal quality of its myths leave a lasting impression.
		On this "flaming red Argive earth" celebrated by the poet, "where the poppy flames still brighter", are heard the most sublime voices of the Greek land - Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles.
		Centuries later the tragic poets Aeschylus and Sophocles brought it back to life with the magic of their verses.
	www.justgreece.com /peloponnese/argolid.php (2158 words)

	HOMER
		Homer is a major figure in ancient Greek literature but virtually nothing is known about his life.
		The many separate Greek states were united by the Homeric epics - the 'Iliad', telling how Greek tribes besieged and took the town of Troy in Asia Minor, and the 'Odyssey', a story based on the adventures of the hero, Odysseus, returning back from Troy to his home land.
		The heroic ideals of these epics inspired Greeks everywhere to regard their particular polis as though it were one of Homer's heroes, thus persuading them to strive for collective glory of their cities.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons1_n2/homer.html (125 words)

	Homer's Epics
		Homer is believed to have been blind, because the poet Demodokos in the Odyssey was blind.
		But Homer's description of the Eastern coast of Greece is accurate, leading some to believe that he lived in the area the Greeks called Ionia.
		Any discussion of Homer immediately reverts to a discussion of the epics, because nothing is known about him, even whether such a poet actually existed cannot be substantiated.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_poetry/108094 (400 words)

	AV About the Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Homer, the major figure in ancient Greek literature, has been universally acclaimed as the greatest poet of classical antiquity.
		However, Homer's genius was as a shaper of traditional poetic elements into works that far exceed the sum of their borrowed parts.
		Homer was most likely a Greek who lived in the eighth century B.C. According to legend, he was blind and made a living as a poor singer of stories (called bards).
	www.avdistrict.org /library/authorhomer.html (3256 words)

	Homer
		Since the Greeks regarded the Trojan War as the defining moment in the establishment of "Greek character," they were obsessed about the events of that great war and told them repeatedly with great variety; as the Greek idea of cultural identity changed, so did their stories about the Trojan War.
		Many classicists believe that the two surviving Homeric epics (probably the only Homeric epics) were in fact composed by several individuals; in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, most classicists accept the overall Greek idea of a single author.
		Dying without fame (akleos) is generally considered a disaster, and the warriors of the Homeric epics commit the most outrageous deeds to avoid dying in obscurity or infamy (witness Odysseus's absurd insistence on telling Polyphemos his name even though this will bring disaster on him and his men in the Polyphemos episode).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM (1650 words)

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		Olson, 'Homer: Poet of the Iliad' URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-v2n02-olson-homer 2.2.6, Mark W. Edwards.
		The first half of Edwards' book is devoted to an analysis of Homer's poetic style, with regular reference to the Odyssey as well as to the Iliad.
		The second half of Edwards' Homer is a brief commentary on selected books of the Iliad (1, 3, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24).
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-v2n02-olson-homer.txt (1176 words)

	Homer Nebraska \| Home Page, Dakota County Nebraska, South Sioux City, Jackson, Nebraska, Homer, Nebraska
		Homer rebuilt after a fire in 1912 and the June floods of 1920 and 1940.
		Homer has a population of 590 and is still growing.
		Homer is also home to several cement contractors, construction companies and independent contractors who work in town and in the Sioux City area.
	www.homerne.com (106 words)

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