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The reign of the spoken word; Homer spun epics that survived while marble temples fell to ruin. (the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey') (The Creators) (Cover Story)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19920831
Author:Boorstin, Daniel J.

Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' persist as the greatest epics of Western civilization. The testaments were a chief source of practical information and history, and they formed the foundation for Greek religion and morals.

Homer's two testaments, the "iliad" and the "Odyssey," remain the first and greatest epics of Western civilization. Still who Homer was, how Homer worked and how the stones were perpetuated has baffled scholarly detectives for 3,000 years. From about 1200 B.C. and for 700 years until Plato's time, these two epics were the basis of Greek religion and morals, the chief ...

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