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Homer
Mar 4, 2006 11:28:06 GMT -5
Post by 2bfoundwanting(unused) on Mar 4, 2006 11:28:06 GMT -5
What makes him great? Not so great? What makes his story believable, or not? Anything you have to say about these old epics?
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Homer
Mar 4, 2006 21:59:31 GMT -5
Post by Tyual on Mar 4, 2006 21:59:31 GMT -5
Well seeing as to how I had to read the Iliad for my research paper, I can tell you part of what makes them great. It's the massiveness. The Iliad, though hard to keep up with because of it, is very massive and covers such an expansive people and land and time that it's astounding. And he does it successfully. The characters are the earliest stages of later Greek characters. The prototypes, to say. It also gave personification to the mythological gods, and played a vital part in the religious views of later Greeks. His words, along with Hesoids were similar to the Greek "Bible." Besides that, it tells a very intersting story, it entails a bit of everything, from understating, to exaggeration, from romance to war, reality to ficition, religion to politics. I'd say it's worth the read. I didn't get a chance to get to The Odyssey though Oh well.
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