CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 7, 2014 â Enjoy signature items from 12 Cape Girardeau restaurants and businesses participating in the âTaste of Capeâ restaurant hop, benefitting Southeast Missouri State Universityâs Department of Theatre and Dance Tuesday, April 22.
That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odysseyâso much may be said to be probable. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the worldâs literary artists.
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The Odyssey is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the Iliad is the oldest. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca,