Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hiad and Odyssey which usher in the literature of Europe are long poems of about 15000 lines each. The general subject of the Hiad is the wrath of Achilles and its due consequence, of the Odyssey, the adventures of Ulysses and Telemachus. Although there are many who doubt Homer's authorship, all agree that at about 1300 or 1200 BC the Greeks had attained much civilization and that songs were sung in which heroes were celebrated. Later the spirit of adventure was felt and this gave rise to new legends into which the old heroes entered. Myth and history became...
That the influence of Homer upon Greek thought and life was marked is in one respect the cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great...