Zachary Lovell
Professor Baker
English 2 Honors
December 6, 2017
Homer The creator of Greek Mythology
In Ancient Greece, many wonderfully talented and intelligent people have been created and shaped to become what they are known as now but, of all the people to come out of Greece, the most famous of all was Homer. Homer has an unknown history and little known early life which has had many historians scrambling to know. Homer however, has many great achievements that are noteworthy including being the author of the wildly famous Greek stories the Iliad and the Odyssey, creating other short stories for Greek Mythology and otherwise and creating his own writing style. Homer has been one of the most influential person in history and that same history shows it very clearly. Through what we know about Homer, he was very successful and influential to today’s society.
The Great poet started his humble beginning in Smyrna, Turkey in central Asia Minor in 800 BC. Due to many however, Geoffrey Kirk said “Although Ionia and Chios early began competing for the honor (the poet Pindar, early in the 5th century BC, associated Homer with both), and others joined in”. He was thought to …show more content…
Homers writing style is very complex and filled with literary devices of all kinds. The writing style is very similar to other styles in the areas he lived in and James Lloyd said, “Because the dialect of Homer’s works is composed in an archaic form of Ionian Greek and he displays a familiarity with the geography of Asia Minor in the Iliad”. Using the sound of his literature because he was an oral poet, James Lloyd shows that you can track down the spot where Homer lived in or near and his influences for his writing style to a certain
Professor Baker
English 2 Honors
December 6, 2017
Homer The creator of Greek Mythology
In Ancient Greece, many wonderfully talented and intelligent people have been created and shaped to become what they are known as now but, of all the people to come out of Greece, the most famous of all was Homer. Homer has an unknown history and little known early life which has had many historians scrambling to know. Homer however, has many great achievements that are noteworthy including being the author of the wildly famous Greek stories the Iliad and the Odyssey, creating other short stories for Greek Mythology and otherwise and creating his own writing style. Homer has been one of the most influential person in history and that same history shows it very clearly. Through what we know about Homer, he was very successful and influential to today’s society.
The Great poet started his humble beginning in Smyrna, Turkey in central Asia Minor in 800 BC. Due to many however, Geoffrey Kirk said “Although Ionia and Chios early began competing for the honor (the poet Pindar, early in the 5th century BC, associated Homer with both), and others joined in”. He was thought to …show more content…
Homers writing style is very complex and filled with literary devices of all kinds. The writing style is very similar to other styles in the areas he lived in and James Lloyd said, “Because the dialect of Homer’s works is composed in an archaic form of Ionian Greek and he displays a familiarity with the geography of Asia Minor in the Iliad”. Using the sound of his literature because he was an oral poet, James Lloyd shows that you can track down the spot where Homer lived in or near and his influences for his writing style to a certain