Ancient accounts of Homer — The ancient accounts of Homer include many passages in archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors that mention or allude to Homer, and ten biographies of Homer, often referred to as Lives .Date of HomerEstablishing an accurate date for… … Wikipedia
Epic poetry — An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. [Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature , Bedford/St. Martin s, 2005,… … Wikipedia
Homer — This article is about the Greek poet Homer and the works attributed to him. For other meanings, see Homer (disambiguation). Homeric redirects here. For other uses, see Homeric (disambiguation). See also: English translations of Homer … Wikipedia
Odyssey — This article is about Homer s epic poem. For other uses, see Odyssey (disambiguation). Greek text of the Odyssey s opening passage The Odyssey (Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odysseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.… … Wikipedia
Lost work — A lost work is a document or literary work produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist. Works may be lost to history either through the destruction of the original manuscript, or through the non survival of any… … Wikipedia
Margites — The Margites, a comic mock epic of Ancient Greece, is about an idiot named Margites (from ancient Greek μάργος margos, raving, mad; lustful ) who was so dense he did not know which parent had given birth to him.[1] His name gave rise to the… … Wikipedia
Batrachomyomachia — Frog mouse war redirects here. For the 20th century controversy in the foundations of mathematics, see Brouwer Hilbert controversy. Contents 1 Plot 2 References 3 … Wikipedia
Nostoi — The Nostoi (Greek: Νόστοι, Nostoi, Returns ), also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks, was a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in … Wikipedia
Cypria — The Cypria (Ancient Greek: Κύπρια Kypria; Latin form: Cypria) is an epic of ancient Greek literature that was quite well known in the Classical period[1] and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view. It was one of the… … Wikipedia
Cyclic Poets — is a shorthand term for the early Greek epic poets, approximate contemporaries of Homer. We know no more about these poets than we know about Homer, but modern scholars regard them as having composed orally, as did Homer. In the classical period … Wikipedia
