Average Pay and Range. The average hourly pay for an auto mechanic was $18.97 as of 2013, or the equivalent of $39,450 annually full time, according to the BLS. Wages varied depending on the type of job and the mechanic's experience.
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.
Homer (Glyptothek, Munich). In the Odyssey, the legendary blind poet Homer describes many countries and islands in the seas west of Greece, visited by the prototypical traveler Odysseus after the fall of Troy. Among these islands was one that was inhabited by Cyclopes, one-eyed giants that liked to devour human beings.