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| Principal figure of ancient Greek literature; the first European poet. Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures. Ranked among the great works of Western literature, these two poems together constitute the prototype for all subsequent Western epic poetry.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  h ´m r from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Odyssey
The myriad adventures of the first epic hero from a distant war to the land of his faithful family. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXII.
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- The Odysseys of Homer, Vol. 1
Chapman’s elegant 1614–16 translation of Homer’s epic The Odyssey.
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