Turmeric has been used for thousands of years as a medicinal preparation and a preservative and coloring agent in foods. Curcumin was isolated as the major yellow pigment in turmeric; chemically diferulomethane, and has a polyphenolic molecular structure similar to other plant pigments (eg.
The Odyssey by Homer Written 800 B.C.E. Context. NEARLY THREE THOUSAND YEARS after they were composed, the Iliad and theOdyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author.
Or it could be a gathering name for all the poets of ancient time. It is easier to see 1 person as writer than so many. If those who wrote it down (I think it was in Athens, 5 century) didn't know they would probably do this. One man that says that both the Iliad and the Odyssey.