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.
The Theogony in Greek. Hesiod lived in the 8th century BCE, probably about the same time or shortly after Homer. He refers to himself as a farmer in Boeotia, a region of central Greece, but other than that we know little. His poetry codified the chronology and genealogy of the Greek myths.