Homer iliad and odyssey biography of mahatma
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Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures. Ranked among the great works of Western literature, these two poems together constitute the prototype for all subsequent Western epic poetry.
The ‘Homeric question’ was the great dispute of scholarship in the 19th cent. Scholars tried to analyze the two works by various tests, usually to show that they were strung together from older narrative poems. Recent evidence strongly suggests that the Iliad is the work of a single poet. Modern scholars are generally agreed that there was a poet named Homer who lived before 700 B.C., probably in Asia Minor, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey are each the product of one poet’s work, developed out of older legendary matter. Some assign the Odyssey to a poet who lived slightly after the author of the Iliad.
Legends about Homer were numerous in ancient times. He was said to be blind. His birthplace has always been disputed, but Chios or Smyrna seem most likely. The study of Homer was required of all Greek students in antiquity, and his heroes were worshiped in many parts of Greece. The Iliad and the Odyssey are composed in dactylic hexameter and are of nearly the same
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The Wonder that was Mahabharata! (ma-hA-bhA-ra-ta)
V. Vemuri
"It is personalities, not principles that move the age," said Oscar Wilde. If personalities stood also for a principle, they become not just movers and shakers but legends. Mahatma Gandhi, in recent times, was one such personality. Sankaraacharya, the great Advaita (non-dualistic) philosopher is another. Buried in the misty past, there is yet another legendary figure of India. He towers over Gandhi and Sankara. He is fondly remembered even today as if he lived only yesterday. It has been said that "what has not been touched by his intellect has not been found elsewhere." According to historians, this remarkable man lived in India about 3,500 years ago. "India would not have been what it has been but for him," it was said. The great grandson of the sage Vasishta (va-si-shTa) , the son of sage Parasara (pa-rA-Sa-ra) and the fisher-girl Satyavati (sa-tya-va-ti), he was called Krishna Dvaipayana; Krishna, probably because he had a dark complexion and Dvaipayana (dvai-pA-ya-na), probably because he was born on an island.
Impelled by a quest for order, he gathered all the knowledge of his time, available in the form of Vedic (vE-di-k^) hymns and rituals. He edited the material and
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