Summaries on The Iliad and The Odyssey

The Iliad
My poem the Iliad is about a war between the Greeks and the Trojans because the king Agammemnon has not returned the daughter of the preist of Apollo causing a plague over Greek. Achilles confronts the king about the situatution but Agammemnon makes a deal with saying that he will release the girl, only if Achilles gives him Briseis in return. Agamemnon agrees to release this girl if Achilles gives him Briseis in return. This collision then leads to a calamity of chaos and martyrdom that even the gods have yet to see. This is the Iliad.

The Odyssey
My creation , the Odyssey, is about a stranded Greek hero Odysseus who has still to return to his kingdom in Ithaca. Back in Ithaca, his kingdom and his family are being invaded and targeted by an assasin. Odysseus is still alive but is imprisoned by Calypso (a beautiful nymph) while the gods of Mt. Olympus debate Odysseus's future. The gods collide in pandemonium as some are in favor of Odysseus's situation where as some are not quite pleased with him. This is the Odyssey.

My Best Buddies

Dante Alighieri: an Italian poet from Florence. His work, The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature





Publius Vergilius Maro: (my bestfriend :D) a Roman poet who was the composer of epics in three modes and the completed Aeneid, the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which became the Roman Empire's national epic

My Most Successful Accomplishments

Cited Sources

Nndb.com
http://classiclit.about.com/od/homer/p/aa_homer.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/homer/p/HomerGuide.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060907152218AAdNn4d
wikipedia.com (under "The Life of Homer" and Homer)
google.com (images under Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Trojan War)

My method of composition

The style I often use is the epithet, a combination of a descriptive phrase and a noun. An epithet presents a miniature portrait that identifies a person or thing by highlighting a prominent characteristic of that person or thing. In English, my epithet usually consists of a noun modified by a compound adjective, such as the following: fleet-footed Achilles. The epithet is an ancient relative of such later epithets as Richard the Lion-Hearted. I repeated my epithets often, presumably so the listeners of my recited tales could easily remember and picture the person or thing each time it was mentioned. In this respect, the epithet resembles the leitmotiv of opera composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The leitmotiv was a repeated musical theme associated with a character, a group of characters, an emotion, or an idea. The meter of my epic poems is dactylic hexameter. A dactyl is a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables, as in the words technical allocate and harbinger. Hexameter is a line containing six metrical feet. Thus, dactylic hexameter is a scheme containing six dactyls, as in the following line: MAKE me a BEAU ti ful GOWN and a HAT fringed with TASS les of DOWN, good sir.

New pieces coming to a library near you!

Recently,
I have been composing over twenty three short hymns addressed to various Greek gods and other epics poems called "The Cypria", "The Little lliad", "The Phocais", "The Thebais", and "The Capture of Oichalia".
COMING TO A LIBRARY NEAR YOU 840 B.C.!!!
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My Life's Story

Hi hi hi,
My name is Homer! I was born in Chios in the Asia Minor, 800 B.C.. I am the son of Cretheis and the daughter of Melanopus. Unfortunately for me, I'm blind, so if my grammar's off I have an excuse! But anyway, I am an aspiring, OLD, Greek poet whose heart lies in the hands of poetry and music. And this is my story...

When I was a young fellow I went on a voyage with my school teacher to Ithaca where I had stayed with a certain mentor. But on my quest to Ithaca, I had suffered from severe eye disease. On my way back from Ithaca to Colophon, I had completely lost my vision. I was in desperate need to make a living, so I picked up poetry to see where it would lead me. Having been deprived of a bid for a municipal sponsorship at Cyme, I moved to Phoncaea, where a disingenuous schoolteacher by the name of Thestorides, offered me nurishment and accomodation in return for the advantage to inscribe my poetry in writing. I was jarringly apprehensive to the fact of plagarism and that this man was going to title my metrical compositions as his own. But then again, I was in need of food and logding so I forcefully accepted this deceitful offer. I recited the lliad and the Odyssey to Thestorides awkwardly. Ashamed at myself, Thestorides traveled to Chios. I was unaware of Thestorides' absence until rumors spread consisting of Thestorides brilliant work. I became furious, although I was the one reciting the works to his very face. Eventually I appeared in Chios as well. When I had arrived in Chios, I was acknowlegded by a tutor. Thestorides retreated hastily and it was known that I was the one who had composed the works of Thestorides. Whose literature comprised of children's stories. With this, I sang my epiteths repeatively throughtout Chios and the people listened contently. Today I'm still reciting my works to the society of Chios! And nothing could make me happier. :)