Homeric poetry comes from a time when the earth’s pole pointed toward the Great Bear (Iliad XVIII.485-9, Odyssey 5.271-5). Modern science, and classical and Homeric scholarship, know nothing whatsoever about this time—the configuration of the earth, its continents, landscapes and seas, its peoples, even the colour of its skins and skies—only some compositions in language, that survived the thing it took to shift the axes of our world, compositions which persist and thrive to such an extent that we today may be sure that the tales told in them were, at least in part, about truly
Homer's Odyssey 1.1-10
Homer's Odyssey 1.1-10
Homer's Odyssey 1.1-10
Homeric poetry comes from a time when the earth’s pole pointed toward the Great Bear (Iliad XVIII.485-9, Odyssey 5.271-5). Modern science, and classical and Homeric scholarship, know nothing whatsoever about this time—the configuration of the earth, its continents, landscapes and seas, its peoples, even the colour of its skins and skies—only some compositions in language, that survived the thing it took to shift the axes of our world, compositions which persist and thrive to such an extent that we today may be sure that the tales told in them were, at least in part, about truly