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Swiss show highlights Homer's impact on culture

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20080427
Author:Hanns Neuerbourg Associated Press

BASEL, Switzerland -- No, it does not symbolize the dreaded computer virus. Mounted outside the Basel Museum of Antiquities, the 30-foot-high wooden structure suggests what the mythical Trojan Horse may have looked like.

It draws attention to a unique show on Homer, the Greek poet whose monumental epics have had an impact on Western culture for more than 2,500 years.

The proverbial "horse" makes only a short episode in Homer's powerful narrative that has influenced art from Greek vases painted in 600 B.C. to American abstract expressionism. Literature, too, has been stimulated by Homer's works ...

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