The smart quotes feature in some computer software can convert vertical quotation marks to curly ones, but sometimes imperfectly. The closing single quotation mark is identical or similar in form (depending on the font) to the apostrophe and similar to the prime symbol. However, these three characters have quite different purposes. The double quotation mark is similar toâand often used to representâthe ditto mark and the double prime symbol.
Homer (Ancient Greek: á½Î¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï [homÉËros] , HÃ³mÉËros) homÄros hÃ³mÄros is best known as the author Of the iliad And. The odyssey he was believed by The ancient greeks to have been the first and greatest of the. epic poetserodotus mentions both the Iliad and the Odyssey as works of Homer. He quotes a few lines from them both, which are the same in todayâs editions. The passage quoted from the Iliad mentions that Paris stopped at Sidon before bringing Helen to Troy.
Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.enetus A, copied in the 10th century AD, is the oldest fully extant manuscript of the Iliad. The first edition of the Iliad, editio princeps, by Demetrius Chalcondyles was printed in Florence in 1488.