Homer

I am not talking

Homer Simpson

here either.

I am talking about the

Greek Poet

Homer,

who was born sometime between the 12th

and 8th centuries BC,

possibly somewhere on the coast of

Asia Minor.

He is famous for the epic poems

The Iliad

and

The Odyssey,

which have had an enormous effect on

Western Culture.

 A clay tablet discovered during an archaeological dig may be the oldest written record of

Homer's Epic Tale,

the

Odyssey,

ever found in

Greece,

the country's culture ministry has said.

Found near the ruined

Temple Of Zeus

in the ancient city of

Olympia,

the tablet has been dated to

Roman Times.

It is engraved with 13 verses from the poem recounting the adventures of the hero

Odysseus

after the fall of

Troy.

The tale was probably composed by

Homer

in the late

8th Century BC.

It would have been handed down in an oral tradition for hundreds of years before the tablet was inscribed.

The exact date of the tablet still needed to be confirmed,

but its discovery was

"A great archaeological, epigraphic, literary and historical exhibit."

The

Greek Culture Ministry

said in a statement.

Excavations to uncover the tablet took three years.

The

Odyssey

is widely considered to be a seminal work in

Western Literature.

The poem,

spanning some 12,000 lines,

tells the story of

Odysseus,

king of

Ithaca,

who spends 10 years trying to get home after participating in the fall of the kingdom of

Troy.

The tablet,

discovered by

Greek & German

researchers,

contains 13 verses from the

Odyssey's 14th Rhapsody,

in which

Odysseus

addresses his lifelong friend

Eumaeus.

A July 10th story on

BBC.com/news/world-europe

This is,

Always Learning,

And

Always Sharing What I Learn,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
- Homer, The Iliad-

That is my story and I am sticking to it! 

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