
HOMER: The Iliad & the Odyssey
Homer
Nearly three thousand years after they were composed, The Iliad and The Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was certainly an accomplished Greek bard, and he probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published. Greeks of the third and second centuries BCE, however, already questioned whether Homer existed and whether the two epics were even written by a single individual.
Most modern scholars believe that even if a single person wrote the epics, his work owed a tremendous debt to a long tradition of unwritten, oral poetry. Stories of a glorious expedition to the East and of its leaders’ fateful journeys home had been circulating in Greece for hundreds of years before The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed. Casual storytellers and semiprofessional minstrels passed these stories down through generations, with each artist developing and polishing the story as he told it. According to this theory, one poet, multiple poets working in collaboration, or perhaps even a series of poets handing down their work in succession finally turned these stories into written works, again with each adding his own touch and expanding or contracting certain episodes in the overall narrative to fit his taste.
Duration - 30m.
Author - Homer.
Narrator - Roger Steward.
Published Date - Thursday, 02 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Albert Rivers ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Nearly three thousand years after they were composed, The Iliad and The Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was certainly an accomplished Greek bard, and he probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published. Greeks of the third and second centuries BCE, however, already questioned whether Homer existed and whether the two epics were even written by a single individual. Most modern scholars believe that even if a single person wrote the epics, his work owed a tremendous debt to a long tradition of unwritten, oral poetry. Stories of a glorious expedition to the East and of its leaders’ fateful journeys home had been circulating in Greece for hundreds of years before The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed. Casual storytellers and semiprofessional minstrels passed these stories down through generations, with each artist developing and polishing the story as he told it. According to this theory, one poet, multiple poets working in collaboration, or perhaps even a series of poets handing down their work in succession finally turned these stories into written works, again with each adding his own touch and expanding or contracting certain episodes in the overall narrative to fit his taste. Duration - 30m. Author - Homer. Narrator - Roger Steward. Published Date - Thursday, 02 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Albert Rivers ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:04
Chapter 1
Duration:00:32:44
Chapter 2
Duration:00:45:48
Chapter 3
Duration:00:22:20
Chapter 4
Duration:00:27:25
Chapter 5
Duration:00:48:15
Chapter 6
Duration:00:27:59
Chapter 7
Duration:00:25:12
Chapter 8
Duration:00:29:54
Chapter 9
Duration:00:38:26
Chapter 10
Duration:00:29:34
Chapter 11
Duration:00:46:48
Chapter 12
Duration:00:26:00
Chapter 13
Duration:00:46:53
Chapter 14
Duration:00:28:24
Chapter 15
Duration:00:41:04
Chapter 16
Duration:00:50:52
Chapter 17
Duration:00:41:08
Chapter 18
Duration:00:33:01
Chapter 19
Duration:00:22:17
Chapter 20
Duration:00:27:32
Chapter 21
Duration:00:33:55
Chapter 22
Duration:00:29:21
Chapter 23
Duration:00:49:36
Chapter 24
Duration:00:44:19
Chapter 25
Duration:00:22:05
Chapter 26
Duration:00:22:11
Chapter 27
Duration:00:25:19
Chapter 28
Duration:00:42:14
Chapter 29
Duration:00:24:23
Chapter 30
Duration:00:17:13
Chapter 31
Duration:00:17:31
Chapter 32
Duration:00:29:24
Chapter 33
Duration:00:29:53
Chapter 34
Duration:00:28:58
Chapter 35
Duration:00:33:01
Chapter 36
Duration:00:24:33
Chapter 37
Duration:00:23:04
Chapter 38
Duration:00:28:21
Chapter 39
Duration:00:28:47
Chapter 40
Duration:00:24:00
Chapter 41
Duration:00:30:55
Chapter 42
Duration:00:22:10
Chapter 43
Duration:00:32:30
Chapter 44
Duration:00:20:53
Chapter 45
Duration:00:22:22
Chapter 46
Duration:00:24:05
Chapter 47
Duration:00:19:18
Chapter 48
Duration:00:28:03
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:11