Hinton-Homer

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 * [[image:homer]]__Homer__ ** 
 * Homer means witness in Greek
 * No solid theory to who Homer was-Homeric Question
 * Believed to be a blind poet from Khios(island in Aegean Sea)
 * Possibly multiple people
 * Believed to have lived in 700 or 800 BC
 * Also questionable-not known for sure
 * Epics-//The Iliad// and //The Odyssey//
 * Homer recited these-was a self-proclaimed "singer"
 * Were not written down for years
 * only two surviving epics of ten
 * First great "writer"
 * Had no prototype to work off of
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Formed basis of Greek education
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">influenced course of western literature
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Homeric style
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Epithet-combination descriptive phase and noun-repeated frequently
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Meter was dactylic hexameter(dactyl-metrical foot with 1 accented syllable followed by 2 unaccented syllables[i.e.-Make, Hat, Down], <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">hexameter-line consisting of 6 metrical feet)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">All epics

Cummings, Michael J. "Homer: Master Storyteller in the Age of Myth." //Cummings Study Guides//. 2003. Michael J. Cummings, Web. 2 Jan 2010. <http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/HomerBio.html#Homer%20Bio>.

Arkwright, Tony, Justin Eichenlaub, and John Ramsey. "Who was Homer?." //Homer's Iliad and Odyssey//. 1998. Web. 2 Jan 2010. <http://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/Hist/slide4.htm>.