LIFE AND WORK OF HOMER
One of the oldest story teller of the ancient times Homer was amongst the ancient Greek and Roman writers. The name homer is said to have derived from a word meaning blind or captive. He was the first source of Greek myth and religion creating masterpieces in literature and ethics. His popularity is to such an extreme that a number of cities in Greece claims to be the blind bard’s birthplace. His years of birth cannot be traced but it is obvious that he was there during the Trojan War. The history of Trojan War has been very closely associated with works of Homer, who illustrated the Greek Trojan conflicts with great details. He was the one who introduced epic to the Greek literature. Therefore his work became a reference for the people looking for poetic forms. Known to be a bard homer used Mnemonic, rhythmic and poetic techniques in his work. Epic poetry was something that homer excelled in. works of homer has been one of the most significant contribution in the world of literature. He was able to bring in new styles through his work. He has been held responsible for creating the body of early heroic hexameter verse. Some of the well-known master pieces from the complete works of Homer includes “Selected Works of Homer”, “The Iliad” and so on. Other works of Homer includes the “Odyssey”.
Selected works of Homer
The book named ‘Selected works of Homer’ contains the two most ancient works of western literature by Homer. The Iliad and Odyssey. While the first describes the story of rescuing the Greek queen Helen from the Trojan captors Odyssey traces the fall of the city of Troy. The epic revolves around the struggles of the Greek hero Odysseus to triumph over the severe obstructions along with defeating the Trojans and so on set on an islands and foreign lands.
Odyssey
The story starts from the city Troy. The story portrays the struggle and the journey of the Greek warriors. Odysseus is the hero of the story. The climax was all about the journey of Odysseus from home to the northwest of Greece. This journey was total 10 long years after Greek army won the battle. Here the amazing works of Homer have beautifully presented the fortune as well as the roller coaster ride of life of Odysseus.
Iliad
The story is the perfect representation of the dark side of the War of Trojan. The incident is basically about the conflict between the Agamemnon leader and the champion warriors. The story was portrayed about the last few days of the War and its unknown incidents. The situation description have sketched the incident elegantly.
The complete works of Homer includes a number of masterpieces out of which only few has been describes here. It is said that Homer was a blind bard who wandered from place to place singing and performing mingling with common men.