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Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
When he lived, as well as whether he lived at all, is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived no more than 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BCE or later.Pseudo-Herodotus estimates that he was born 622 years before Xerxes I placed a pontoon bridge over the Hellespont in 480 BCE, which would place him at 1102 BCE, 168 years after the fall of Troy in 1270 BCE. These two end points are 252 years apart, representative of the differences in dates given by the other sources.
The importance of Homer to the ancient Greeks is described in Plato's Republic, which portrays him as the protos didaskalos, "first teacher", of the tragedians, the hegemon paideias, "leader of Greek culture", and the ten Hellada pepaideukon, "teacher of [all] Greece". Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds in Egypt.
Baujahr: 1913-22 Tonnage: 34000 Tons Länge: 232 Meter Breite: 24 Meter Geschwindigkeit: 18Kn Passagiere: 2700 (inkl. 3.Klasse 1700) Besatzung: 800 Mann Verschrottet: 1936 Die RMS Homeric war eines der Besten und beliebtesten Schiffe der WSL. nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Eigentlich wurde das Schiff als deutsche Columbus entworfen, musste jedoch wegen dem Krieg an England abgeliefert werden. Im Zuge der Fusion mit Cunard wurde der Liner dann 1935 außer Dienst gestellt und bald darauf verschrottet.
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Chris Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University) discusses the Homeric Question.
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice HOMER (c. 8th cen - c. 8th cen), translated by Hugh Gerard EVELYN-WHITE (1884 - 1924) - audiobook Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and traditionally attributed to Homer but their true provenance is unknown. The Epigrams are a series of fragments on disparate topics including sailors, children and potters and are similarly attributed to Homer although it appears Hesiod and others wrote some of them. Finally, Battle of Frogs and Mice is a light-weight parody -- literally, at one-fiftieth the number of lines -- of Homer's famous battle of Greeks and Trojans epic, ...
In this lecture, Professor Richard Jenkyns (University of Oxford) explores one of the most fundamental questions asked of the Homeric epics – was the Iliad the work of a single poet or of many?
Listen to the full audiobook, or read it's ebook version: http://appgame.space/mabk/30/en/B00OM8J656/book These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of Delos and his foundation of the Delphic oracle; Hermes' invention of the lyre and theft of his brother Apollo's cattle; and Aphrodite's love affair with the mortal Anchises. This edition offers a new text of these poems. The Introduction discusses among other things the nature and purpose of the poems in general, their origins, their structure and themes. The Commentary brings out the individual character of each Hymn, by analyzing in depth its language and literary qualities, and also its reli...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B00BH9RHCW/book This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter compositions that were probably recited at festivals of the gods whom they honoured and were often attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which, with the discovery of new fragments, have attracted much interest in recent years....
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Listen to the full audiobook: http://easyget.us/mabk/30/en/B00EP8CYAW/book In Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, the king was said to be installed by divine appointment and was regarded as having a special and privileged relationship with God or the gods. This comparative and thematic study assesses the role of the king as a divine messenger and his use of, and reliance on, piety to legitimate his position and ensure the compliance of his subjects. Based on a variety of texts from each of the three regions, including poetry, philosophy, history and theological works, Launderville examines the rhetoric of royal legitimation. He also looks at what the community expected from the king as the centralising symbol of the community, the chief messenger from the divine world and...
Here again ... on my cold mortuary slab
In my Anatomy theatre for the final act
At the medical scaffold ... I commence
My last clinical Opus of Revenge
Kept alive for Dissection
Methods of surgical brutalism
Bizarre forensic instruments pierce your skin
Phrenetic amputations - fractured bones
Without qualm festered viscera I remove
Kept alive for Dissection
Disembowelment - I rub the intestines on your face
Shredded abdomen - profuse gastric haemorrhage
Mangled innards - dislocated anal tract
Nauseous Torment - Festered organs I extract
In the morgue ... lesson on gore
You shall bleed for pathology
Excruciating denervation of the lumbar spine
Genital laceration ... testicles I grind
Oxidized cranial auger drill your brain
Frantic mortal Convulsions ... die in pain
Kept alive for Dissection
Final movement - your heart beating in my hand
Live Necropsy - Morgue is not only for the dead
Mutilation - sliced arteries spurting blood
Furious Carnage - you are dismembered alive
In the morgue ... lesson on gore