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Homer

Homer

He probably lived around the eighth century BC

Several conflicting opinions have arisen about the authorship of the Homeric poems. The questions raised are when, where and how he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey? Is it based on previous books? Is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey the same person? These questions result in hypotheses, which is that there may not have been a person named (Homer), and it is possible that these two poems have evolved over time with the addition of additions to them, or that they were collected by publishers and selected from groups of different authors. The scholars who studied this problem did not agree on any solution to it, but the author of (The Hundred) proposes some hypotheses.

One of them is that there was only one main author of the Iliad (it is too good to have been composed by a commission) and several poets in the past wrote about its subjects in the form of very short poems. But he, Myros, coordinated these poems, arranged them, and added to them, but he breathed into them from his unique genius. Homer, the author of this masterpiece, lived in the eighth century BC. The author also assumes that the same man is the author of the Odyssey, because the similarities between the two poems are very great.

But although Homer is Miros, we have little information about the life of Homer himself. It is said that he was blind, and the intensity and imaginative power of these two poems confirm that the ancient traditions that say that. He was blind, which is correct, but this ardent imagination indicates that he was neither blind nor a bloodthirsty, but he became blind during his life.

These two poems consist of (28,000) verses of poetry, so it is likely that they were written shortly after their occurrence.

As for the great fame of Miros, the author expresses fear and trembling because he has placed him in this humble position among the hundred, because it is from his opinion and policy that most of the writers and artists have placed in such ranks. In the case of Homer, the contradiction between his fame and his influence is a great and clear contradiction. Although the writings of Ho Miros are taught in schools, he rarely finds people reading Homer after leaving college or university, while compared to Shakespeare, for example, we see that his poems are still read or his plays come out with a theatrical delight and have many spectators and admirers.

In addition, literary circles and writers these days quote a lot from Homer, unlike Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin and Omar Khayyam, but the impact of Homer's poems on the ancient Greek peoples was great. It has influenced religious and moral attitudes greatly. His influence extended to the military fields. Many military leaders read Homer, and it is said that Alexander the Great carried a copy of my poem Myros with him in all his military campaigns.

More importantly, his literary influence was influenced by all poets and playwrights by Homer, and he remembered Sophocles, Europides and Aristotle among them.

And his influence on Roman writers is no less than his influence on Greek writers, for (Virgil), who is considered the greatest Roman author, wrote his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in the same manner and style as the Iliad, because the Roman writers considered him Miros as their role model and a model of quality and excellence.