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HOMER
(c. 8th century B.C.)
from The Iliad: The Deaths of Hector and Achilles
Homer is the traditional name given to the author(s) of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems that were written down in a dialect known as Homeric Greek sometime around the 8th century B.C. No certain biographical information about … Continue reading
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