Philip H. Young, The Printed Homer: A 3000-Year Publishing and Translation History of the Iliad and the Odyssey (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008), 487ppdoi:10.1007/s12138-011-0271-2International Journal of the Classical Tradition -Scully, Stephen...
The first evidence of a female condom (also known as an internal condom) dates back to around 3,000 B.C.E., when it makes an appearance in texts such as Homer’sThe Iliad. According to the texts from this time period, a goat’s bladder was inserted into the vagina of King Minos’...
The Lydians belonged to a race of people strongly influenced by the Hittites. Much of this empire's history is primarily known only from the ancient Assyrian texts, though other ancient texts such as the Bible, Greek mythology, and Homer's Iliad all mention Lydia. In the Bible, the ...
exaggeration, viewers are also right to wonder if there’s more to the story. To understand Vorian and his place in the larger story, we must first understand his father Agamemnon. No, not the pity-party-prone king fromThe Iliad… but also, kind of the pity-party-prone king fromThe ...
the Trojan people comes from the Greek poetHomer'sIliad, despite the fact that theIliadis a work of literature based primarily on myths and legends. For a long time, the descriptions in theIliadof Troy were dismissed as pure fiction, but there is archaeological evidence that suggests that at...
The story of the fall of Troy is one of the oldest stories in history. It dates back to around 800 BC, to a poem written by a man called Homer. The poem is called The Iliad(《伊利亚待》). Ilium is the Greek name for Troy.The story is a myth(神话), but many believe the city...
The Iliad, the subject is war. The Greek army has traveled to Troy to battle the Trojan army by the recused Menelaus wife Helen from Paris , resulting in a war that rages on for the better part of a ten year.” To me the three most important and relevant protagonist of the Iliad ...
Like most of the Aryans these Greeks had singers and reciters whose performances were an important social link, and these handed down from the barbaric beginnings of their people two great epics, the Iliad, telling how a league of Greek tribes besieged and took andsackedthe town of Troy in ...
ahomer did not so much record history,he created it. the greeks looked on the iliad and the odyssey as true history and as the works of the poet,homer. thoes masterpieces gave the greeks an ideal past with a cast of heroes. the epics were used as texts for the education of greek mal...
Greece is one of the few places in the world where the past and the present seem to coexist. It is both a modernized country where the inhabitants own modern... Read More The Marathon Race Begins in Ancient Greece Did you know that the first Marathon took place in Ancient Greece? Each ...