How Do Modern Historians View Homer
The Homeric Question Concerns the Doubts and Consequent Debate over the Identity of Homer, the Authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and Their Historicity...
Why were the epics of Homer so important to the early Greeks?
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, nobility and the good life to which all Greeks, especially aristocrats, subscribed.
Who Won the Trojan War?
The Greeks
The Greeks won the Trojan War. According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors.
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