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.
The Iliad is the oldest war poem in the world. We know it as having been composed in Greece by Homer, a supposedly blind poet born on the island of Chios, and written down probably some time in the eighth century BC.he Iliad is the oldest war poem in the world. We know it as having been composed in Greece by Homer, a supposedly blind poet born on the island of Chios, and written down probably some time in the eighth century BC.