Notes: This is The ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY of HOMER translated by Alexander Pope. SILAS ANDRUS and SON, , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. Published by Leavitt Allen, New York. Edited by W. C. Armstrong. Hard backed and leather bound; 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" almost 2 1/2" thick ; Gold sided pages. The Iliad The Odyssey - Homer quantity. Add to cart. SKU: Category: Books. Description Reviews (0) “Sing, Goddess, sing ” Homer’s two epic poems have formed the basis of Western education since antiquity and survive today as enthralling tales of magnificent gods, legendary heroes, daring adventures, and mythical. Both works attributed to Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in /5().
Hector Vs. Achilles In The Iliad By Homer. In the epic The Iliad by Homer, there are two fighters worth discussing. These two gentlemen are Hector of the trojans and Achilles of the myrmidons. Each of these men have three qualities that describe who they are. While both champions are admirable, one is more praiseworthy than the other. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In The Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. The Iliad, the first of Homer's epic poems, tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles's slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks. In The Odyssey, in his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the terrible Charybdis and the.
Homer's epic poems in a more readable format for today's enthusiasts! The Iliad - the tale of the Trojan War, up to the death of Hector, which all realized spelled the end of the Trojan's chances of winning. It was a war the gods just couldn't keep their hands out of! The Odyssey - following Odysseus' epic voyage home after the end of the Trojan War!. The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the most famous epic poems ever written. Both are attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. Epic poems are written in verse and tell a long story about a. The language of the Iliad and the Odyssey suggest that Homer came from the western coast of the modern nation of Turkey. Homer’s name can be translated from a word that means blind, but the vivid imagery of the Iliad and the Odyssey suggest that the author of the poems must have had sight at some point in his life.
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