Homer's most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves. His poems provided a fixed model of heroism ...

Homer Simpson only has eyes for his wife Marge, and they won’t be crying for poor Barney any time soon.Of all the unfortunate ...

He “had an uncanny ability to allow myths that might have seemed less than pertinent to be tellingly on point, particularly in his many repurposings of Homer,” the poet Paul Muldoon wrote in ...

Maloney is a carpenter from Homer who plays the hand pan to accompany Schoonmaker at poetry readings. Schoonmaker is a fisherman from Kasilof, known as Alaska’s Fisher Poet. “It’s truly a ...

One of the most significant works of early literature, it is attributed to the poet Homer and is believed to have been written in the eighth century BC. It is a mythical tale following the Greek ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

But not everyone knows the original work by Ancient Greek poet Homer or what The Odyssey is even about, so for those in need of a beginner's guide here is what you need to know. There are a few ...