![]() ![]() ![]() His wisdom was praised, and during the Hellenistic and Roman periods the Stoic philosophers believed that the epics contained Stoic concepts. The Iliad and the Odyssey were used as textbooks in the ancient Greek world, and as Plato noted, Homer “has taught Greece.” Homer’s influence touched every discipline, including philosophy. The two Homeric epics played the greatest role in the development of ancient Greek culture and education. The earlier period they refer to is the heroic age of the Bronze Age, the time when the Mycenaean civilization flourished in Greece, from about 1600 BC to about 1200 BC. ![]() They describe events that took place some 400 years before they were first written down. Set to writing sometime in the 8 th century BC, the two ageless poems stem from a much older oral poetic tradition. Perhaps no works exerted more influence in the Western literary tradition than Homer’s epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey. IN SEARCH OF HOMER (September 10–21, 2022 )Ī Voyage to the World of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the Aegean and Ionian Seas Aboard the 34-Guest Yacht Callisto with Professors Emily Wilson and William B. Please contact our tour coordinator, Colin Church of Thalassa Journeys, at or call him at 86 for more information if you have not already been contacted directly. Sign up for our Advance Notification list to be the first to hear about upcoming tours. We are working on plans for possibly 4 new tours in 2023. ![]()
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