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Legendary Author who Authored Iliad and the Odyssey is Attributed, Greatest and Most Influential Authors of all Time
: The legendary author to whom the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey (the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature) is attributed. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Virgil refers to him as "Poet sovereign", king of all poets; in the preface to his translation of the Iliad, Alexander Pope acknowledges that Homer has always been considered the"greatest of poets". (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“One must honor guests and foreigners and strangers, even those much poorer than oneself. Zeus watches over beggars and guests and strangers.”
Source: "Odyssey," by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018. Book 14: A Loyal Slave, Page 334.
"Odyssey," by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
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