It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years,… - Homer

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It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.

Homer

The Odyssey · October 31, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.

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Native Name: Ὅμηρος

Alternative Names: Homerus • Homeros • Mæonides

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Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows,
and the immortally anointed hair of the great god
swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.

It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were to… - Homer

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