AFISSA- OMIROS

Description

Poster of Homer from the “Wise Reinvented” series of collectible illustrations.

Homer is an ancient poet, the author of the world-famous Iliad and the Odyssey.

The series was created by the Greek illustrator Stavros Damos in collaboration with a Greek company, and includes the Gods, heroes and philosophers:

Zeus, Poseidon, Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Odysseus, Socrates, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Pythagoras.

 

DIMENSIONS: 60 × 90 cm

 

More information about Homer:

Homer is the author of the poetic works of the Iliad and the Odyssey,

one of the earliest texts of the historical period of ancient Greece, known as the “Homeric Epics”.

The Iliad consists of 15,693 verses and refers to the last fifty-one (51),

decisive days of the Trojan War, which lasted, according to legend, 10 years.

The Odyssey consists of 12,110 verses and describes Odysseus’s ten-year struggle for the Nostos (return to his homeland Ithaca after the conquest of Troy).

It is said that he was blind and that his origin was from the region of ancient Ionia.

Apart from the Iliad and the Odyssey, other epics of the Trojan cycle, several religious hymns, the epic parody Frogfighting and a comic narrative about a dumb hero, Margit, were attributed to Homer in antiquity.

Modern research, and especially those who accept that Homer can be considered a real person, place his life in the 8th century BC.

and considers it likely that he was an Ionian rhapsodist, a continuator of a long tradition of heroic narratives, who composed the Iliad around 750 BC and the Odyssey (if indeed he composed both works) around 710 BC.