Homer

Centuries of disagreement lasted about copyright Homer's poems. When, where, and how the Iliad and the Odyssey was created?
To what extent the poem was leaning on the composition before? Is Iliad and Odyssey composed by the same person? Is one of them composed by only one author? Perhaps no one like Homer and his poems were developed through the aggregation
process is so slow, or is prepared by a group of processors that a joint mencomotnya poems written by many different poets. Scholars who waste time in years investigating this issue does not come to terms with one another; then how can someone who is not a classical scholar to know the proper answer? Of course, I do not know the answer; even so, to determine where Homer placed in proper chronological list of this book, I made the following estimates.

The first estimates are, it is true there was a main author Iliad. (The reason, is too great if the work was compiled by a group of people!). In the centuries before Homer, many poems about the shorter the same problem composed by Greek poets, and Homer took a lot of their work. However, Homer did more than just assembling the Iliad of short poems that have been there before. He chose, he set, he perfected the words and add to it and finally complete a final result with the genius of literary talent. Homer, who produces great works, may live in the 8th century BC although many consider records earlier than that. I also predict that the same person is the primary author of Odyssey. Although the argument (based in part from differences in style) that the two poems composed by authors who have different equivalent power, overall similarities between the two poems are far more important than the differences.

From what has been presented, it became obvious how little can be known about Homer's own affairs, and there is no biographical data about him. There is a very ancient tradition of solid, dating from the early Greeks, that Homer was blind. But the greatness that was a visual representation of the two poems shows if Homer was blind anyway, is not blind from birth was taken. The language of the poem shows that Homer came from Ionia, the area east of the Aegean sea.

Despite apparently believe that so long and so carefully the composition of a poem can be created without writing, many intellectuals seem to agree that poetry is at least the beginning and maybe even all, is the composition of the oral (oral). It is not certain when poetry was first written into the text. Consider the terms of its length (the combined total nearly 28,000 verses), it seems rather difficult to imagine that poetry can be carefully removed so except if it is written in a period of time not so long after its original creation. In an event, before the 6th century BC, the poem was already considered great classics, and biographical information about Homer is gone. After that, the Greeks always considered Odyssey and the Iliad is the work of high terjunjung nation. Interestingly, during the period between the centuries and all the changes in style that has happened, the reputation of Homer never become extinct.

Judging from Homer's fame and high reputation, with the thought that dag-dig-dug me put Homer in the sequence numbers so low. This and similar reasons I do well against the general figures of art and literature. Place them in the order of this list, low. In the case of Homer, the difference in the difference between reputation and influence seems greater. Though his work is often studied in school, in today's world very few people read Homer once they leave high school or college for. This is a big different with the drama of Shakespeare and read poems and his plays are often staged by getting enough visitors. As a result, completely different.

And Homer was not widely cited. Although the quote is in the works of Homer Barlett, very little used in everyday conversation. Not only different from Shakespeare, is also different from writers such as Benjamin Franklin or Omar Khayyam. Sentences like "penny saved is a penny earned", which is often called, may in fact influence one's personal attitude, an attitude and even the smells of a political decision. Had nothing to do with Homer's what many people now quoted.

If the case, what Homer for inclusion in the list order this book? There are two reasons. The first reason, the number of people who grew over the centuries either heard or read the works of Homer really did much. In the world of the past, Homer's poem is much more popular than now. In Greece, his work was so familiar with the general population, and in a very long period of influence of religion and ethical attitudes. Odyssey and the Iliad is not only famous in intellectual literary circles, but also in the military and political leaders as well. Many of the old Roman leader cites Homer, Alexander the Great even tucks a copy of Iliad diketiaknya during combat. Even now, Homer is the author as idol at school, and generally we've read his work (at least in part) for the school.

Even more important, perhaps, Homer's influence on literature. All the poets of classical Greece and drama writers are very badly affected Homer. Figures such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristotle - just mention a few examples - immersed in the tradition of Homer, and it took a brilliant idea from the literature.

Homer's influence on ancient Roman authors clearly large. All received her poems as a measure of perfection. When Virgil - often considered the greatest Roman writers - to write his great work he's Aeneid and the conscious self confidence menyontoh Iliad and Odyssey excellence.

Even in modern times was, in fact every important writers influenced by Homer directly or by writers such as Sophocles and Virgil are both highly influenced by Homer. There was no writer in the history of influence so widespread and so long term.

The most recent problem is probably a very complicated. During the last hundred years, very likely more influential Tolstoy and his work more widely read person than Homer. But Tolstoy did not have any influence during the 26th century, while the influence of Homer has been continued for 2700 years or more. It really is a very long time. As a result, Homer was not easily matched by literary figures, even by people who work in any field.Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.