Homer

• Homer is best known as the author of______: Iliad and Odyssey

• Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to______: Western Canon

• The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato’s ______ which portrays him as “first teacher” of tragedies and “Leader of Greek culture”: Republic

• The satirist Lucian in his ______ describes him as Babylonian called Tigranos, who assumed the name Homer when taken “Hostage”: True History

Notable works of Homer

1-Odysey

• The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the fall of Troy: Greek

• It takes Odysseus ______ years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War: 10

• ______ translated it to English in 16161: George Chapman

• It is written in______: Dactylic hexameter

2-Illiad

• Referred as______: The Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium

• It is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, set during Trojan War between______: King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles

3-Homeric Hymn: A collection of 33 anonymous ______ celebrating individual god in dactylic hexameter: Ancient Greek Hymns

4-Epic Cycle: A collection of ancient Greek epic poems that related the story of ______ which includes the Cypria, the Aethiopes, the so called Little Iliad, Ilupersis, the Nostoi and the Telegoni in dactylic hexameter: Trojan War