Homer : principal figure of ancient Greek literature, & the First European poet. Legends about Homer were numerous in ancient times. He was said to be blind, & seven different cities claimed him. Modern scholars generally agree that there was a poet named Homer, who lived before 700 BC, probably in Asia Minor, that he wrote for an aristocratic society, & that the Iliad & the Odyssey are each the product of one poet’s work. “For centuries during the Mauryan-Scythian era (4th cent BC – 4th cent AD) India was in intimate contact with the Graeco-Roman world. Embassies were exchanged…Indian philosophers, traders, & adventurers were to be found in the intellectual circles of Athens & in the markets of Alexandria…. A Greek orator, Dion Chrysostom, informs us that the poetry of Homer was sung by the Indians, who had translated it into their own language & modes of expression so that even Indians were not unacquainted with the woes of Priam, the weeping & wailing of Andromache & Hecuba & the heroic feats of Achilles & Hector.” [Advanced History of India, R.C. Majumdar et al, 3rd Ed., 1973-1974, p.135]
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