My favourite poet is Homer.I have read some of his works such as the Odyssey,his biography is completely unknown and it might even be possible that he completely did not exist. He is traditionally known as blind and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace.His works are highly superstitious as was the tradition in Ancient Greece.HIs work talks about ten years after the Fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus's palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus's son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace. Unknown to the suitors and his son and wife,Odysseus was actually alive except that he was imprisoned on Oggyia an island belonging to a nymph who fell in love with Oddysseus. I feel that his works are deep as the story is full of the poems and i may sometimes have to spend some time figuring out the meaning of each poem,which adds to the trill of reading the book.I feel that he has great spiritual strength as he make wonderful poems even though he is blind.His story are about the gods and somehow relates to our current life, such as the gods having affairs with normal humans which relates to the current society with people having affairs.His most famous works are The Odyssey,and The Iliad. "A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."This is quoted from Homer in The Iliad,I think it is interesting as it speaks of only having one ruler instead of a multitude of rulers,it is a good way to prevent war from breaking out as the ruler will have supreme control so that there would not be any wars. So little is known or even guessed of his actual life, that a common joke has it that the poems "were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name," and the classical scholar Richmond Lattimore, author of a good poetic translation to English of both epics, once wrote a paper entitled "Homer: Who Was She?". This shows how little about Homer is known,which makes him very mysterious.
My favourite poet is Homer.I have read some of his works such as the Odyssey,his biography is completely unknown and it might even be possible that he completely did not exist. He is traditionally known as blind and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace.His works are highly superstitious as was the tradition in Ancient Greece.HIs work talks about ten years after the Fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and rowdy mob of suitors who have overrun Odysseus's palace and pillaged his land continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus's son, wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to fight them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to assassinate the young prince, eliminating the only opposition to their dominion over the palace. Unknown to the suitors and his son and wife,Odysseus was actually alive except that he was imprisoned on Oggyia an island belonging to a nymph who fell in love with Oddysseus. I feel that his works are deep as the story is full of the poems and i may sometimes have to spend some time figuring out the meaning of each poem,which adds to the trill of reading the book.I feel that he has great spiritual strength as he make wonderful poems even though he is blind.His story are about the gods and somehow relates to our current life, such as the gods having affairs with normal humans which relates to the current society with people having affairs.His most famous works are The Odyssey,and The Iliad. "A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."This is quoted from Homer in The Iliad,I think it is interesting as it speaks of only having one ruler instead of a multitude of rulers,it is a good way to prevent war from breaking out as the ruler will have supreme control so that there would not be any wars. So little is known or even guessed of his actual life, that a common joke has it that the poems "were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name," and the classical scholar Richmond Lattimore, author of a good poetic translation to English of both epics, once wrote a paper entitled "Homer: Who Was She?". This shows how little about Homer is known,which makes him very mysterious.
