Homer
Author of The Odyssey
About the Author
Homer is the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two greatest Greek epic poems. Nothing is known about Homer personally; it is not even known for certain whether there is only one true author of these two works. Homer is thought to have been an Ionian from the 9th or 8th century B.C. While show more historians argue over the man, his impact on literature, history, and philosophy is so significant as to be almost immeasurable. The Iliad relates the tale of the Trojan War, about the war between Greece and Troy, brought about by the kidnapping of the beautiful Greek princess, Helen, by Paris. It tells of the exploits of such legendary figures as Achilles, Ajax, and Odysseus. The Odyssey recounts the subsequent return of the Greek hero Odysseus after the defeat of the Trojans. On his return trip, Odysseus braves such terrors as the Cyclops, a one-eyed monster; the Sirens, beautiful temptresses; and Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly rock and whirlpool. Waiting for him at home is his wife who has remained faithful during his years in the war. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey have had numerous adaptations, including several film versions of each. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Series
Works by Homer
Homer: Odyssey VI and VII (Bristol Classical Press Greek Texts) (Bk.VI and VII) (1982) — Author — 26 copies
Himnos homericos / Homeric Hymns: La Batracomiomaquia / the Batrachomyomachia (Biblioteca Clasica Gredos) (Spanish… (1901) — Author — 21 copies
Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphorodite (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (2010) 18 copies
Iliad. Book 1 10 copies
Homeros 10 copies
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Works and Days. (1936) 9 copies
The Odyssey of Homer: With the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1861) — Author — 8 copies
Homers Ilias 2.3: Gesang XIX-XXI 7 copies
Ilias 2,2 Gesang 16 - 18 7 copies
Odyssée (classiques abrégés) 7 copies
Odyssey, Vol. 1 6 copies
The Odyssey, v.1 6 copies
Iliad, Vol. 1: Greek Text 5 copies
Iliad, Vol. 2: Greek Text 5 copies
Odyssey, Vol. 1: Greek Text 5 copies
Odyssey, Vol. 2: Greek Text 5 copies
Odyssey, Vol. 2 5 copies
ILIADA 4 copies
Homeri Opera et reliquiae 4 copies
The Odyssey [Easton Press] 4 copies
Odissea 3 copies
The Iliad : the story of Achilles 3 copies
The Sixth book of the Iliad 3 copies
The Great Books Second Year Volume Two 2 Homer The Odyssey (The Great Books Foundation) (1955) 3 copies
Tout Homère — Author — 3 copies
The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad (Handy Literal Translations) — Author — 3 copies
Four Books of Homer's Odyssey, With Introduction, Commentary, and Vocabulary, For the Use of Schools 3 copies
Homero - Ilíada e Odisseia 3 copies
Homer 3 copies
The Iliad of Homer. Books 1-9 — Author — 3 copies
Ulysse et Polyphème 3 copies
Odyssey : book X 3 copies
Homers Werke 3 copies
Il Canto di Patroclo 3 copies
Ulises, Primera parte: La maldicion de Poseidon (Sexto Piso Ilustrado) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 3 copies
Homer's Iliad, books I.-III 3 copies
The Complete Works of Homer 2 copies
Complete Works of Homer 2 copies
The Odyssey 2 copies
Complete Works of Homer 2 copies
Iliada, #1 2 copies
The Illiad and The Odyssey 2 copies
Odisea 2 copies
The story of Achilles 2 copies
ILLIADA 2 copies
The Odyssey of Homer, book IX 2 copies
Iliade: Libro I 2 copies
Homeri Ilias Tomvs I Prolegomena 2 copies
Odüsszeia 2 copies
Iliadis I - XII 2 copies
Homers Ilias I - XII Gesang 2 copies
La Iliàda 2 copies
Homeri Opera Tomus 5 Hymnos, cyclum, fragmenta, margiten, batrachomyomachiam, vitas continens 2 copies
L'ODYSSEE - POESIE HOMERIQUE - 3 TOMES - I II III / I. CHANTS I- VII II. VIII-XV III.XVI-XXIV / COLLECTION DES… (1924) 2 copies
Iliade, chant XXIII - édition, introduction et commentaire par Pierre Chantraine et Henri Goube 2 copies
L'Odyssée 2 copies
Homerus 2 copies
Uit de Ilias 2 copies
Ilias. Zang I en VI 2 copies
Dzieła. 2, Odyseja 2 copies
The Iliad and the Odyssey 2 copies
Homerus. Odyssee. Fragmenten 2 copies
The Parallel English / Greek Odyssey: With Dictionary Definitions for Every Greek Word (2016) 2 copies
l'iliade libro XXIV 2 copies
Iliad [abridged] 2 copies
Homeri Opera Tomus V 2 copies
Homer, Odyssey II (LCL 105) 2 copies
The Odyssey, Books 13-24 (Oxford Classical Texts: Homeri Opera, Vol. 4) by Homer (1922-02-22) 2 copies
Complete Works, Didot, Paris, '37 2 copies
The Odyssey, Dent, London '97 2 copies
Odyssevskvædet 2 copies
Werke in zwei Bänden. Zweiter Band 2 copies
Ilias & Odyssee (Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe, speziell für elektronische Lesegeräte) (2012) 2 copies
odisea para niños, La 2 copies
L'odissea, vol. 2 2 copies
The Iliads of Homer, prince of poets ... with a comment on some of his chief places, vol. II 2 copies
The Iliad, book I. 2 copies
Ulises, Tercera parte: El duelo de los pretendientes (Sexto Piso Ilustrado) (Spanish Edition) (2012) 2 copies
The compact Homer 2 copies
The sixth book of Homer's Odyssey 2 copies
The Story of Odysseus in the Land of Tthe Phaeacians: Being the Sixth and a Part of the Seventh Book of the Odyssey… (1904) 2 copies
Werke in zwei Bänden [2Bde] 2 copies
Homer's Iliad 2 copies
The Story Of The Iliad 2 copies
Odisea 2 copies
Homer's Iliad, books xix-xxiv 2 copies
Libros épicos de Homero: La Odisea y La Ilíada. (Edición completa anotada e ilustrada) (Spanish Edition) (2021) 2 copies
Homeri Iliadis Carmina 2 copies
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, The Aeneid by Virgil, and Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang (Classic Collections) (2009) 2 copies
Ilíada 2 copies
Il Libro XXII dell'Odissea 2 copies
La iliada (enciclopedia Pulga 80) 2 copies
Mitos clasificados 3 2 copies
Odyssee. Text der ersten Ausgabe 2 copies
Iliada, #1 2 copies
Homers Ilias Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar / Bk.) : Band I: Erster Gesang (A) ; Faszikel 1: Text und Übersetzung (2009) 2 copies
The Odysseys of Homer - Vol. I 2 copies
The Odysseys of Homer - Vol. II 2 copies
LA ODISEA 1 copy
Il libro 11. dell'Odissea 1 copy
Odisseia 1 copy
Poemetos e fragmentos 1 copy
Kikvorsenmuizenstrijd 1 copy
Priče iz Ilijade 1 copy
Priče iz Odiseje 1 copy
Homèros' Odyssee 1 copy
Homer The Iliad 1 copy
Ilias 1 copy
The Complete Works of Homer 1 copy
La Ilíada de Homero 1 copy
ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ ΤΟΜΟΣ Α 1 copy
The Odyssey1 1 copy
Homers Odyssé 1 copy
Dall'Odissea : traduzioni — Author — 1 copy
Priče iz Ilijade i Odiseje 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer, Books I, Vi, IX: Rendered Into English Blank Verse (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copy
Odisseia - Prosa - Abril 1 copy
La Iliada - La Odisea 1 copy
Le voyage d'Ulysse. Extrait de l'Odyssée. Version intégrale des chants V à XIII, vers 185. (1983) 1 copy
Ailíada e a guerra de Tróia 1 copy
La Ilíada 1 copy
Iliade Chants XXII et XXIV 1 copy
LA ILADA 1 copy
Iliada ; Odisea 1 copy
Ilíada v.3 1 copy
The Iliad: Edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Vol. 1, Books I–XII 1 copy
A HÍADA E A GUERRA DE TROIA 1 copy
Ilias Homer [Homerus] ; Odyssee ; (Übers. v. Johann Heinrich Voß nach d. 1. Ausg. 1781 u. 1793) 1 copy
Iliada wybór 1 copy
L'Iliade d'Omero 1 copy
Le 1er chant de l'Iliade 1 copy
Iliade. 1er chant 1 copy
Odyssée. 6ème chant 1 copy
Iliada vol. 1 1 copy
L'Odyssée, tome I 1 copy
L'Odyssée, tome III 1 copy
The Iliad 2 [...] 1 copy
Ilias en Odyssee 1 copy
Homer's Gesänge 1 copy
Die Homeridischen Dichtungen 1 copy
L' Iliade di Omero 1 copy
Odissea. Libro sesto 1 copy
Iliade: Vol. II 1 copy
H Nekya: libro XI 1 copy
Iliade: libro sesto 1 copy
L'Odyssée : Poésie homérique 1 copy
Argo ed Euriclea 1 copy
Iliadis 1-12 1 copy
ODISEU 1 copy
Ilias en Odyssea 1 copy
Dall'Odissea 1 copy
De terugkeer van Odysseus 1 copy
Илиада. Одиссея 1 copy
La Odisea (ilustrado) 1 copy
Iliade, chants I et VI 1 copy
La Ilíada 1 copy
Homerou epē Ilias Odysseia 1 copy
A Ilídia 1 copy
Odissea: libro 22. 1 copy
Одіссея 1 copy
Homeri Opera 1 copy
Ilíada : antología 1 copy
Cantos homéricos 1 copy
Odyssee in Auswahl 1 copy
La Ilíada. I 1 copy
Іліада 1 copy
ODISEA NE PROZE 1 copy
La Odisea (Texto adaptado) 1 copy
The Complete Epic Poems 1 copy
Libro 9., Odissea 1 copy
De Ilias van Homeros 1 copy
Il libro 6. dell'Odissea 1 copy
L'Odissea. Libro 5. 1 copy
L'Iliade. Poéme, avec un Discours sur Homère. Par monsieur de La Motte, de l'Académie françoise 1 copy
LA ILIADA DOS TOMOS 1 copy
La Ilíada 1 copy
A Ilíada - Bolso 1 copy
La iliada (Los clásicos) 1 copy
Odisséia - Nova Cultural 1 copy
Iliade, libro 1. 1 copy
ILIADA (E RIFORMULUAR) 1 copy
الإلياذة 1 copy
Homēra īliada 1 copy
Iliade et Odyssée 1 copy
Odissea 1 copy
Illiade 1 copy
Odissea 1 - 4 1 copy
Odissea 5 - 8 1 copy
Odissea vol. II. 1 copy
L'Iliade vol. I. 1 copy
ODISSEA I VIAGGI DI ULISSE 1 copy
Iliade In Greco 1 copy
l'iliade libro sesto 1 copy
Odissea. Libro IX 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (τόμοι Δ' - ΙΒ΄) 1 copy
Iliade - vol. 2 1 copy
Iliade - vol. 1 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (Γ' τόμος) 1 copy
Iliade. Vol. I 1 copy
Iliade. Vol. II 1 copy
Il riscatto di Ettore 1 copy
Mitos Clasificados 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (Α' τόμος) 1 copy
Odissea - libro VI 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (Β' τόμος) 1 copy
Odissea - libro XII 1 copy
Odissea - libro XVI 1 copy
Odissea - libro XXIII 1 copy
Odissea - libro XXIV 1 copy
l'iliade libro 1 1 copy
Iliade: libro 6 1 copy
Antologia de la "Iliada" 1 copy
Iliasz 1 copy
ΝΕΚΥΙΑ: Preview 1 copy
Βατραχοποντικοπόλεμος 1 copy
A Odisséia (Adaptação) 1 copy
La Iliada, Tomo I 1 copy
Ilíada de Homero (volume I) 1 copy
La Ilíada I 1 copy
Ομήρικα έρη 1 1 copy
Ilíada Odisea ; Himnos 1 copy
Odissea parte 1 1 copy
Илиада - Гомер 1 copy
Odissea libro quarto 1 copy
Obras Completas 1 copy
oddissea libro I 1 copy
Book 9788831321655 1 copy
Omero minore 1 copy
Příhody Odysseovy 1 copy
Odysseova dobrodružství 1 copy
Илиада (Russian Edition) 1 copy
オデュッセイアー〈下〉 (1972年) (岩波文庫) 1 copy
Илiада 1 copy
La Iliada. Prologo con resena critica de la obra, vida y obra del autor, y marco historico. (Spanish Edition) (2013) 1 copy
The Iliad, book 1 of 3 1 copy
The Iliad, book 2 of 3 1 copy
オデュッセイアー〈上〉 (1971年) (岩波文庫) 1 copy
Odissea, libro 11. 1 copy
L iliade tome 2 Achille et Hector Chants XXII et XXIV Extraits des chants XIX XX XXI e (1962) 1 copy
Iliade - Libro VI 1 copy
A Ilíada - Em quadrinhos 1 copy
Odissea Libro VI Nausicaa 1 copy
Ιλιάδα & Οδύσσεια 1 copy
L'Iliade 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (γ) 1 copy
Iliada e Odisseia 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (β) 1 copy
I poemi 1 copy
Iliade: Libro XXIV 1 copy
Omero Iliade, volvme primo 1 copy
Omero Iliade, volvme secondo 1 copy
Homere Hymnes 1 copy
Iliade, tome I,II,III,VI 1 copy
L'Odyssée, "Poésie Homérique" Tome III, Chants XVI - XXIV, "Les belles lettres" guillaume… (1967) 1 copy
La Odisea-condensado 1 copy
Iliade Chants XIII-XVI 1 copy
L'Odyssée (texte abrégé) 1 copy
Odyssée (Chants I, V et VI) 1 copy
Iliad Chants VII-XXIV 1 copy
L'odyssee D'homere 1 copy
L'Iliade, tome II 1 copy
Iliade (Chants XXII et XXIV) 1 copy
Ιλιάδα (α) 1 copy
Odissea. Libro primo 1 copy
Odissea. Libro settimo 1 copy
Odissea. Libro dodicesimo 1 copy
Odissea: libro sedicesimo 1 copy
Odissea: libro 23. 1 copy
Odissea. Libro 24. 1 copy
Odissea, libro V 1 copy
Odissea, libro I 1 copy
La Iliada ; Odisea 1 copy
Odissea, vol. 3/4 1 copy
iliade, libro XXIV 1 copy
Iliade, libro i 1 copy
Iliade, libro XXII 1 copy
La peste y la cólera. Rapsodias selectas de la Ilíada (Fondo 2000 Series) (Spanish Edition) (2000) 1 copy
Iliadis I-XII XIII-XXIV 1 copy
I poemi di Omero 1 copy
Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια 1 copy
Omero Odissea, volvme primo 1 copy
Οδύσσεια (β) 1 copy
Odisseo e le donne 1 copy
Οδύσσεια (α) 1 copy
Iliade. Volume 2 1 copy
Iliade. Volume 1 1 copy
Iliade: Libro XXII 1 copy
odissea volume 4 1 copy
I POEMI OMERICI. Libro VII dell'Iliade. Duello di Ettore e di Aiace; Sepoltura dei morti (1937) 1 copy
The Iliad, book 3 of 3 1 copy
Opera: Iliadis 1 copy
Te Odyssey 1 copy
De Italici Ilias Latina: Accedit Ilias Latina Cum Apparatu Critico, Item Nominum Index Locuples (Latin Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Vaixells negres davant Troia 1 copy
Homer. Odyssey, Books XIII.-XVIII. (XIX.-XXIV.). With introduction, notes, etc. By W. W. Merry 1 copy
Homers Ilias Gesamtkommentar ; (Basler Kommentar/BK) : Band VIII, Vierundzwanaigster Gesang: Faszikel 1: Text und… (2010) 1 copy
Homeri Odyssea Vol. 2 1 copy
Homeri Odyssea Vol. 1 1 copy
Homer: The Complete Epic Poems A Biography of the Author (Book House Publishing) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) (2017) 1 copy
The Odyssey: A New Verse Translation, Backgrounds: the Odyssey in Antiquity, Criticism (2009) 1 copy
Odyssey, Books XII-XXIV 1 copy
The Iliads of Homer, vol. II 1 copy
The Iliads of Homer, vol. I 1 copy
Homer's Odyssey: Books XIII-XXIV. Edited with English notes and appendices by D. B. Monro (1901) 1 copy
Homers Ilias Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar / Bk) : Band IV: Sechster Gesang (Z) ; Faszikel 1: Text und Übersetzung (2008) 1 copy
The Iliad, Books I-VI 1 copy
Homeri Hymni et Epigrammata 1 copy
Harvard Classics - Homer 1 copy
Homeri Ilias Graece et Latine Annotationes in Usum Serenenissimi Principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis De Cumberland Regio… (1814) 1 copy
Homeri opera : Iliad 1 copy
Hymn to Apollo 1 copy
The Iliad: book XXII 1 copy
Homers Ilias Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar / Bk.) : Band I: Erster Gesang (A) ; Faszikel 2: Kommentar (2009) 1 copy
The Iliad: Vol II 1 copy
Odyssey (DVD) 1 copy
Homeri Odyssea, Pars II 1 copy
Homeri Ilias, Pars II 1 copy
Troy 1 copy
The complete works of Homer 1 copy
Odyssea Homeri a Francisco Griffolino Aretino in latinum translata : die lateinische Odyssee-ersetzung des Francesco… (2011) 1 copy
The Iliad, book VI 1 copy
Jude the Obscure 1 copy
The legend of Ulysses 1 copy
Werke [vol 1-2/2] 1 copy
Werke - 2. Band 1 copy
Werke - 1. Band 1 copy
Dzieła. 1, Odyseja 1 copy
La Ilíada, nº 447 1 copy
71009-1 1 copy
La Ilíada, nº 446 1 copy
Odyssea 2 (オデュッセイア 下) 1 copy
Odyssea 1 (オデュッセイア 上) 1 copy
[Homer: Odyssey Books XVII-XVIII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)] [Author: Homer] [June, 2010] (2010) 1 copy
The Homeric Hymn to Dionysos 1 copy
Homer. "Ilias" und "Odysse". Die Zeichnungen von John Flaxman. Mit einer kunsthistorischen Einleitung von Anja Grebe (2013) 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, Esq. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 2 (2010) 1 copy
Iliade - VII.-XII. Sang 1 copy
Iliade - I-VI. Sang 1 copy
Odyssé - 1. - 12. Sang 1 copy
Ilias, in 2 Bdn., Vol.1 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer : according to the text of Wolf, with notes for the use of schools and colleges 1 copy
Homerou Ilias Kai Odysseia Kai Eis Autas Scholia, E Exegesis, Ton Palaion. Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, Accedunt… (2010) 1 copy
The Iliad, book XXII 1 copy
Iliad, book XXI 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer, done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers 1883 [Hardcover] (2015) 1 copy
Homer, The Odyssey. v. 2 1 copy
O pesništvu 1 copy
Auswahl aus Homers Odyssee 1 copy
Homer: Iliad Book XIV 1 copy
Odyseja; przeklad z greckiego Jozefa Wittlina. Wydanie trzecie, zmienione (Biblioteka polska) 1 copy
Opera, tomvs I-V — Author — 1 copy
Opera, IV 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer, Books X-XXIV (The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, volume VIII) — Author — 1 copy
Homer's Iliad, Book XXI 1 copy
Opera, I 1 copy
Homērou Ilias sun tois scholiois. Homeri Ilias ad veteris codicis Veneti fidem recensita. Scholia in eam antiquissima… (2010) 1 copy
Hymni Homerici 1 copy
The Iliad (volume 2) 1 copy
Agamemnon 1 copy
L'Odyssée II: Chants VIII-XV 1 copy
Priče iz Ilijade i Odiseje 1 copy
Iliade IV: Chants XIX- XXIV 1 copy
Il Libro V dell'Iliade 1 copy
Il Libro XVII dell'Odissea 1 copy
Il Libro IX dell'Iliade 1 copy
Il Libro VIII dell'Iliade 1 copy
Ilias: Ilias. Kommentar. Griechisch. (Lernmaterialien) (Aschendorffs Sammlung lateinischer und griechischer Klassiker) (2010) 1 copy
Homeri Hymnus in Cererem 1 copy
Homērokentra 1 copy
Il Libro XIV dell'Odissea 1 copy
Odyssey Study Guide 1 copy
Iliade. 4 : Chants XIX-XXIV 1 copy
Iliade. 2 : Chants VII-XII 1 copy
The Histories 1 copy
The Iliad vol 2 1 copy
La Iliada II /The Iliad (Coleccion Clasicos De La Literatura Griega Y Latina Carrascalejo De La Jara) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 1 copy
La Iliada I /The Iliad (Coleccion Clasicos De La Literatura Griega Y Latina Carrascalejo De La Jara) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 1 copy
Homers Ilias: Gesamtkommentar Auf der Grundlage der Ausgabe von (Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare) (German… (2000) 1 copy
The Iliad (volume 4) 1 copy
Odessey II 1 copy
The Odyssey (Chapman - v. 2) 1 copy
Sotto le mura de Troia 1 copy
Homerus: Ilias (Complete in Two Volumes) (Bibliotheca Teubneriana: Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum) (1914) 1 copy
Thetis and Achilles: Homer, Iliad xviii, 1-147, tr. William Arrowsmith, Texas Quarterly reprint 1 copy
Homer's odyssey : book I 1 copy
Classics Club: The Odyssey 1 copy
Ilias: Erweiterte Ausgabe 1 copy
Cyclopedia of World Authors Masterplots Biographies of 753 World Famous Authors From Homer to James Gould Cozzens… (1958) 1 copy
The Iliad {audio} 1 copy
Die Gedichte Homers 1 copy
Homers Werke in Zwei Bänden 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer, Vol. 2 — Author — 1 copy
The Iliad (Chapman v. 1) 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer, Vol. 1 — Author — 1 copy
Odyssea cum notis criticis, commentariis exegeticis, indicibus ad utrumque epos pertinentibus 1 copy
The Iliad (Chapman - V. 2) 1 copy
Iliadis I - XII 1 copy
Obras completas de Homero 1 copy
Iliade II: Chants VII-XII 1 copy
Homers Odyssee und Ilias im Auszuge, Deutsche Schulausgaben Band 110, mit 14 Abb. v. John Flaxmann, (1918) 1 copy
Tes tou Homerou Iliados 1 copy
The Iliad (abridged) 1 copy
The Story of Achillês. Shortened from Homer's Iliad translated into plain English by W. H. D. Rouse 1 copy
The Odyssey I (LCL 104) 1 copy
Odyssey. Books VI-VIII 1 copy
Odisseya 1 copy
Iliade e Odissea 1 copy
Las aventuras de Ulises 1 copy
The Ilian 1 copy
Introduction a l'Iliade 1 copy
L' Odyssee tome I,II,III 1 copy
Ulysse et l'Odyssée 1 copy
L'ODYSSEE. Morceaux choisis 1 copy
Iliade. Odyssée...Iliade. [Traduction,] introduction et notes de Robert Flacelière. Odyssée.… 1 copy
Story of the Iliad, The 1 copy
The Epics 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer 1 copy
Book XII of Homer's Odyssey 1 copy
Revelation 1 copy
The Iliad (Xist Classics) 1 copy
Homer Odyssey = ʹOmēros Odýsseia : an Antipodean translation for the early twenty-first century (2013) 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer 1 copy
Homer, Gesammelte Werke: Gebunden in feinem Leinen mit goldener Schmuckprägung. Ilias & Odyssee (Anaconda… (2018) 1 copy
Sparknotes the Iliad 1 copy
Books XIII - XXIV 1 copy
Books I - XII 1 copy
L ODYSSEE POESIE HOMERIQUE. TOME III CHANTS XVI - XXIV - TEXTE ETABLI ET TRADUIT PAR VICTOR BERARD - COLLECTION DES… (1947) 1 copy
The Odyssey of Homer. Retold by Barbara Leonie Picard. Illustrated by Kiddell-Monroe. [With plates.] 1 copy
Odysseus' irrfärder 1 copy
Iliaden i urval 1 copy
Tepegozlerin Magarasinda 1 copy
Ilias. Zang XXII en XXIV 1 copy
Illias en Odessa 1 copy
Ilian en Odyssea 1 copy
Odysséen 1 copy
ILIADA ILIAS DESTANI 1 copy
Homeri Odysseae carmina 1 copy
De geïllustreerde Odyssee 1 copy
IliasOdyssea 1 copy
Odyssey : Books 6-8 1 copy
Ilias en Oyssea 1 copy
Homeros: Iliaden 18 1 copy
L'Iliade D'Homere 1 copy
L'Iliade et l'Odyssée 1 copy
HOMÈRE : ILIADE (ILLUSTRÉ AVEC 48 IMAGES, TEXTE INTÉGRAL ANNOTÉ DE 25 CITATIONS D’HOMÈRE ) (French Edition) (2019) 1 copy
L'iliade t. 2 1 copy
Ilias I (1-14) -II (15-24) 1 copy
llias en Odyssee 1 copy
Homeros' Iliad. D. 2 1 copy
Homeros' Iliad. D. 1 1 copy
Odussee. VIde zang 1 copy
Odusseia : zangen V en VI 1 copy
Homˆeru Ilias, ˆE Mallon Hapanta ta sˆozomena = Homeri Ilias, Sev Potivs Omnia eius quæ extant opera 1 copy
İLİADA İLİAS DESTANI 1 copy
Одиссея. Odisseja 1 copy
ODYSSE, BOOK I-XII 1 copy
The Harvard Classics 1 copy
[Circe and the Cyclops (Penguin Little Black Classics)] [Author: Homer] [February, 2015] (2015) 1 copy
Iliade - XIII.-XVIII. Sang 1 copy
Sovekammerodysseen 1 copy
Homer - Ilias. Übertragen von Hans Rupé. Mit Urtext, Anhang und Registern. (= Tusculum Bücherei) (1961) 1 copy
Odyssey (Books VI, VII) 1 copy
Homeri Iliadis carmina cum apparatu critico ediderunt J. van Leeuwen J. F. et M. B. Mendes da Costa (v.1-2): Editio… (1895) 1 copy
The Lake English Classics. The Iliad of Homer. Books I., VI., XXII., XXIV. Edited for School Use (2015) 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer. Vol. I 1 copy
Iliadis libros I-XIII 1 copy
Homer's Odyssey, Books 13-24 1 copy
The Iliad of Homer, vol. 2 1 copy
ILÍADA - ODISEA 1 copy
The Iliad Of Homer & other Bonus works: The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Golden Ass, The Aeneid, Helen Of Troy, The… (2015) 1 copy
The Iliad Of Homer (Complete): Translated By Alexander Pope, With Notes By The Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley (2019) 1 copy
[Works] 1 copy
Homero-Odisea 1 copy
Ilíada, vol II: cants V-VIII 1 copy
Homers Odyssee: Teubners Sammlung deutscher Dicht- und Schriftwerke für höhere Töchterschulen (1890) 1 copy
Ilíada, vol. I: cants I-IV 1 copy
Achilleis Homers Ur-Ilias 1 copy
Classics Retold – World's Greatest Tales Adapted for the Youngest: Odysseus, Arabian Nights Entertainments,… (2020) 1 copy
Classical Love Poetry 1 copy
Homeri opera : Odysseae 1 copy
The First Book of Homer's Iliad: With a Vocabulary, Some Account of Greek Prosody and an Appendix (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copy
THE ILIAD & TH ODISSEY 1 copy
Ilíada I 1 copy
Homerici Centones a Veteribus Vocati Homerokentra: Virgiliani Centones Utrique in Quaedam Historiae Sacrae Capita… (2009) 1 copy
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Iliad, The The 1 copy
Mutations 1 copy
Lifetime Library: The Iliad 1 copy
The tale of Troy 1 copy
Ilias 1 copy
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The Annals and The histories 1 copy
Odysseus and the Cyclops 1 copy
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Contributor — 278 copies
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays (1993) — some editions — 127 copies
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 29 copies
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Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 10 copies
Van Homerus tot Van Lennep : Griekse en Latijnse literatuur in Nederlandse vertaling (1992) — Author — 4 copies
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Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #2 (of 8) — Contributor — 3 copies
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #1 (of 8) — Contributor — 3 copies
Historier fra de syv have — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #4 (of 8) — Contributor — 2 copies
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #3 (of 8) — Contributor — 2 copies
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #8 (of 8) — Contributor — 1 copy
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #7 (of 8) — Contributor — 1 copy
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #6 (of 8) — Contributor — 1 copy
Marvel Illustrated: The Odyssey #5 (of 8) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Homeros
- Other names
- Homeros
Homerus - Birthdate
- c. 9th Century BCE (disputed)
- Date of death
- c. 8th Century BCE (disputed)
- Burial location
- unknown
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Ancient Greece
Ionia - Country (for map)
- Greece
- Birthplace
- Smyrna (Anatolia, Ancient Greece [reputed])
Athens (Ancient Greece [reputed])
Ithaca (Ancient Greece [reputed])
Pylos (Ancient Greece [reputed])
Colophon (Ancient Greece [reputed])
Argos (Ancient Greece [reputed]) (show all 7)
Chios (Ancient Greece [reputed]) - Place of death
- Ios, Greece (reputed)
- Occupations
- poet
- Short biography
- Homer is the semi-legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.
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Best translation of the Iliad? in Geeks who love the Classics (May 2020)
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Homeric allusions in Homer, the Trojan war, and pre-classical Greece (December 2009)
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A must-read for all but not recommended without some guidance. From the very dawn of civilization, Homer provides us with a manifold source of knowledge to gain in a great variety of fields. They are powerful echoes from a deep past but are easily misinterpreted.
Since it was the first of its kind and cannot be fully understood without historical, social, evolutionary context.
Homer’s work goes beyond the telling of common themes of glory and valor. His epic poems revolutionized storytelling. One gets the distinct feeling that he made a conscious effort to have myth serve literature, not the other way around. The flat if superhuman characters of earlier myths, say the Gilgamesh Epos, the Atra-Hasis, or Enuma Elis, their one-dimensional recalling of events, their lack of sophisticated literary techniques that were considered sufficient to serve a myth of creation are replaced and superseded by Homer’s sophisticated literary structure with its well-developed characters exuding, for the first time, human qualities in such complexity that make them so recognizable.
Homer’s characters have become ambassadors for eternity to come. Just consider Helen’s statement to Hector, “On us two Zeus has set a doom of misery, so that in time to come we can be themes of song for men of future generations”- Book 6. A prophetic statement, indeed.
It is often said that we (the West) are all Greek, well then we (writers and authors) are all Homerians.… (more)