person

homer

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Properties

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creative_trait
fertile and splendid fancy
description
An ancient Greek poet whose epic poems, particularly the Iliad and the Odyssey, blended fertile fancy and existing myths with historical reality.
notable_works
Iliad, Odyssey

Relationships

  • is author ofIliad
    description
    Homer is traditionally credited as the author of the epic poem the Iliad.
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    Homer's poems are to such a degree the product of his own fertile and splendid fancy, and of the myths which he found afloat in the air of the old world he lived in, that people forgot how much reality had place in the works of his genius.
  • is author ofOdyssey
    description
    Homer is traditionally credited as the author of the epic poem the Odyssey.
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    source_text
    Homer's poems are to such a degree the product of his own fertile and splendid fancy, and of the myths which he found afloat in the air of the old world he lived in, that people forgot how much reality had place in the works of his genius.
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