Homer
Homer ( fl.c.700 BC) was the famous great Greek epic poet of the ancient Greece, and perhaps the greatest of all time. He used to go from place to place as a bard and sing his poems in public. The famous Greek epics the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" were composed by him and for the honour of being the place of whose birth seven Greek cities contended. When old and blind, he is said to have wandered from city to city rehearsing his verses, and many believe to have lived 900 years before Christ some time after the reign of Solomon the conventional date of which was c. 970–931 BC. It must also be noted that majority of historians believed he flourished c. 700 BC. It is only modern criticism that has called in question his existence, and has ventured to argue that the poems ascribed to him are a mere congeries of compositions of the early fabulous age of Greece, but the unity of the plan and the simplicity of the style of the poems go to condemn this theory in the regard of most Homeric scholars.Homer was the only poet who was believed to have invented some sort of a cycle of one wheel on which he used to travel, and in this sense he was a scientist poet. The story of the Homeric siege of Troy by Greeks is there in the Iliad. It is said that the Greeks had a siege of Troy in 1200 BC, however, it is controversial. Homer's works are occupied with the restless and active enterprises of the heroic age.
Wisdom & Quotes
- Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
- Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.
- I detest that man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
- Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
- Sleep is the twin of death.
- The tongue of man is a twisty thing.
- Victory often changes her side.
- There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
- How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
- Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
Hesiod