CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 7, 2014 â Enjoy signature items from 12 Cape Girardeau restaurants and businesses participating in the âTaste of Capeâ restaurant hop, benefitting Southeast Missouri State Universityâs Department of Theatre and Dance Tuesday, April 22.
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.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY Date. These epics are the oldest surviving works of Greek literature. They were composed in the 8th century B.C. (750 B.C. for the Iliad, 720 B.C. for the Odyssey).They took their present form when Greeks learned to write using the N. Phonecian alphabet.Before that, the Greeks communicated it by oral tradition before that.hese epics are the oldest surviving works of Greek literature. They were composed in the 8th century B.C. (750 B.C. for the Iliad, 720 B.C. for the Odyssey). They took their present form when Greeks learned to write using the N. Phonecian alphabet. Before that, the Greeks communicated it by oral tradition before that.