Ancient Greek literature begins with the epic verses of Homer. Epic then continued as a fundamental literary form throughout antiquity and the influence of the poems produced extends beyond antiquity ...

Homer's most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves. His poems provided a fixed model of heroism ...

Blackie, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh ... from which it is evident that the language of Homer lives in a state of purity, to which, considering the extraordinary duration ...

As I sheltered from the pale winter sun in the shade of Mycenae’s Lion Gate, I had never felt closer to Homer’s Iliad – and the Greek heroes of the Trojan War. This was where Agamemnon ...

Mahaffy (1839–1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of The Flinders Petrie ... and examines the written evidence from Homer to Menander, focusing, almost ...

They famously fought in the battle of Troy. Homer, an important Greek writer, told stories of the Mycenaean age in his books The Iliad and The Odyssey. After the Mycenaean age ended in about ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...

A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of Homer's epic tale, the Odyssey, ever found in Greece, the country's culture ministry has said. Found near ...

Shrouded in myth and Greek sunshine, the second smallest Ionian island is a safe bet for a quieter - but just as cultured - ...

New Greek Voices is a wonderful collection of short stories from Greece’s best writers since Homer Greek fiction is not ...

A would-be burglar entered an apartment, saw a book on Homer's Iliad, and made himself comfortable to read it—until caught ...