SSC
WORLD HISTORY
Question
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Which literary figure is used as a historical source for the Greek Dark Ages?
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Socrates
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Pericles
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Aristotle
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Homer
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The events Homer narrates have to do especially with the Trojan War and its aftermath, around the year 1250 B.C.E. at the end of the Bronze Age, a period named for the metal that was then chiefly in use.
Detailed explanation-2: -Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece.
Detailed explanation-3: -Homer’s most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks’ own ideas about themselves. His poems provided a fixed model of heroism, nobility and the good life to which all Greeks, especially aristocrats, subscribed.
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