Homer

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Ο Όμηρος είναι ο δημιουργός των ποιητικών έργων της Ιλιάδας και της Οδύσσειας, από τα πρώτα κείμενα της Ιστορικής περιόδου της αρχαίας Ελλάδας, γνωστών ως «Ομηρικά Έπη». Η Ιλιάδα αποτελείται από 15.693 στίχους και αναφέρεται στις τελευταίες πενήντα μία, αποφασιστικής σημασίας ημέρες του πολέμου της Τροίας, ο οποίος συνολικά διήρκεσε, σύμφωνα με τον μύθο, 10 χρόνια.

Quotes

“Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε, / πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν / ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν / οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι.”
Iliad c. 750 BC

Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Books by Homer in order

Books by Homer in the order they were published, from The Odyssey of Homer (1488) to The War Nerd Iliad (2017).

If you like Homer

Authors readers of Homer often like, from our AI-written notes

VirgilWrote the Aeneid in Latin, deliberately modelled on the Iliad and Odyssey, and is often read after Homer.
HesiodA near-contemporary early Greek epic poet whose Theogony and Works and Days show the same oral-epic tradition in a different mode.
Apollonius of RhodesAuthor of the Argonautica, a Hellenistic epic that reworks Homeric narrative and style for a later audience.
OvidMetamorphoses retells many Greek myths in Latin with a playful narrative voice that readers of the epics often enjoy.
SophoclesTragedian whose plays, such as Ajax and Philoctetes, take up heroic honour and the consequences of the Trojan War.