![]() ![]() Learn all about the world of Homer’s Odyssey. Adventure, monsters, temptresses, and a whole lot of wine-dark Aegean. As the Iliad reaches its spectacular climax, it’s time to ask a big question. The violent and spellbinding middle books of the Iliad leave us with questions about Homer’s theology. And at the core of its 24 books is one shiny metal. ![]() Homer’s Iliad is the Tyrannosaurus Rex of ancient epics. ![]() But how wise is wisdom literature?īefore Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, there was a grouchy farmer poet whose Works and Days continues to fascinate us.Įlementals, giants, titans and gods! Hesiod's Theogony chronicles a great war - one which would leave a single entity sovereign over the cosmos. What about its folktales and stories?Īncient Egypt produced a great deal of proverbs and wisdom literature. We know about Ancient Egypt's pyramids, temples, and sarcophagi. In the 3,500 year old Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, we can find the roots of the world's religions. The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed 3,000-5,000 years ago, and first translated in the 1860s and 70s, was one of the greatest literary discoveries of all time. The Enuma Elish and the Atrahasis, in circulation 3,800 years ago, were Mesopotamia's creation and flood epics, making them 1,000 years older than Genesis. For thousands of years, cuneiform was the means of transmitting information through space and time in the Ancient Near East. ![]()
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