Homer
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Sarah Palin's book tour kicks off in Grand Rapids, Mich....she concluded, and went upstairs to sign books in front of a blue curtain and under blown-up covers of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Homer's "Iliad." Nearly 24 hours before the former vice-presidential candidate arrived, her most fervent... In this article: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Michigan, Barnes and Noble, Newsweek, and Alaska |
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Guardian | 3 days ago
The Habit of Art: Alan Bennett's debt to Homer
...the ekphrasis of classical literature - the extended description, not of a play, but of a work of visual art. The first example is in Homer's Iliad. The ekphrasis here is the virtuosic description of the shield of Achilles - the miraculous...
In this article: Alan Bennett, Thetis, Hephaestus, Achilles, Cattle, and Odysseus
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Esquire | 3 days ago
How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes the Government Work
...the names of all the kids in the senior class. It's a quick, almost involuntary bit of system analysis; Nicole signed up for Homer and therefore her thesis topic was denied. Orszag allows himself a tiny smile of satisfaction and moves on...
In this article: Peter Orszag, Office of Management and Budget, Salad, United States, Chicken, and E mail
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The Australian | 6 days ago
Sing, muse, sing of Kevin Rudd
...and left to destroy himself, each after his own fashion. You can argue with this way of reading Homer. You could suggest, for instance, that after Homer's day moral duty became an increasingly complicated, variegated thing -- a matter of...
In this article: Tony Blair, Achilles, Hector, Troy, Horace, La Fontaine, Joseph Addison, and Dow Jones
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TIME | 7 days ago
How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play
...of Northwestern University, who has lauded Vickers' work, has used the "search and display" function in his computerized database to analyze Homer's works. With the tool, he's been able to highlight distinctive phrasal repetitions in the...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Brian Vickers, Edward III, Literature, Thomas Kyd, London, and Injunction
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Denver Post Entertainment | November 13, 2009
Review: Calamity Jane outshoots, outrides, and tells taller tales than any man!
..."Macbeth." Rick Miller plays more than 50 characters in "MacHomer," a popular one-man stage play in which the cowardly but ambitious Homer is a funny yet tragic hero, aided and abetted by the faithful Marge, who has always worn the pants...
In this article: Calamity Jane, Boulder, Wart, Lutherans, and Nuclear Power Plant
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Wired: Beyond the Beyond | November 11, 2009
We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die
...of the 16th century. My novels, by the way, are full of lists. SPIEGEL: Accountants make lists, but you also find them in the works of Homer, James Joyce and Thomas Mann. Eco: Yes. But they, of course, aren't accountants. In "Ulysses,"...
In this article: Leopold Bloom, Umberto Eco, James Joyce, Don Giovanni, Wired.com, Ulysses, Twitter, and Lorenzo Da Ponte
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | November 11, 2009
SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
...list is certainly prevalent in the postmodern age. It has an irresistible magic. SPIEGEL: But why does Homer list all of those warriors and their ships if he knows that he can never name them all? SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time...
In this article: Umberto Eco, Leopold Bloom, James Joyce, Louvre, Don Giovanni, Ulysses, Google, and Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Telegraph.co.uk - Travel | November 09, 2009
Readers' holiday guide: Europe
...and beaches. Full of history without being boring. After staying here Byron was inspired to fight and die for Greek independence. Ulysses, in Homer's epic tale, struggled for long years to return to this, his island home, turning down the...
In this article: Rome, Dog, The Sunday Telegraph, Cephalonia, Europe, Zamora, Knossos, Taormina, and Dubrovnik
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scotsman.com - Books | November 06, 2009
Book review: Ransom
...might say that all western literature comes out of Hom ADVERTISEMENT er and his tales of Troy. For centuries writers have engaged with Homer: from the Athenian tragic dramatists and the Roman Vergil right up to our own time. Sometimes, as...
In this article: Achilles, Priam, David Malouf, Troy, Hector, Patroclus, History, and Hercules
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Prime Newswire | October 13, 2009
Homer's Immortal Character -- Achilles -- Returns to the Battlefield in Gripping Novel -- New Book About the Life and Times of the Legendary Greek Warrior is An Official Entry to This Year's New York Library Association Book Exhibit
Source: Xlibris Homer's Immortal Character -- Achilles -- Returns to the Battlefield in Gripping Novel -- New Book About the Life and Times of the Legendary Greek Warrior is An Official Entry to This Year's New York Library Association...
In this article: Achilles, Colorado, Literature, Adams State College, and Niagara Falls
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Homer (Ancient Greek: , Hómēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition. According to Martin West, "Homer" is "not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name."
The date of Homer's existence was controversial in antiquity and is no less so today. Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the supposed time of the Trojan War. The date of the Trojan War was given as 1194–1184 BC by Eratosthenes, who strove to establish a scientific chronology of events and this date is gaining support because of recent archaeological research.
Alfred Heubeck states that the formative influence of the works of Homer in shaping and influencing the whole development of Greek culture was recognised by many Greeks themselves, who considered him to be their instructor.
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