Homer Greek Poet Author Greek Art Statue

Homer Greek Poet Author Greek Art Statue Features: Condition: New, reproduction handmade in Greece. Height: 15cm - 5.90 inches Width: 10.00cm - 3.93 inches Weight: 0.330 kg Material: Alabaster SKU: SAC1017 Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.