Shrines dedicated to Homer have been discovered, and it is thought that he was the subject of what is now known as an ancient Greek "hero cult ", a religious practice dedicated to individuals who were considered to be greater than men but not quite gods. Adoration for Homer was so great that in some places he was nearly revered as a god. The Cult of Homer: Homer’s epics were considered the foundational works of ancient Greek literature and culture. However, all of the texts of the Epic Cycle have been lost, with just fragments remaining. Altogether they formed a narrative of the war, known as the Epic Cycle. The Iliad, an epic poem attributed to Homer and the oldest extant piece of European literature, is conventionally divided into 24 books. It is often suggested that these works were written after the two Homeric epics, and most of them are much shorter than Homer’s masterpieces. The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer.
Titles included the Cypria, the Aethiopis, and the Little Iliad. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. The Epic Cycle: Along with the Iliad and the Odyssey, there were several other ancient Greek poems that concentrated on the events of the Trojan War, filling out the events not mentioned in the Homeric epics. Mitchell’s Iliad is also the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L.
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