WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Homer, an important Greek writer, told stories of the Mycenaean age in his books ____
A
The Iliad and The Odyssey.
B
The Odyssey.
C
The Iliad
D
The Iliad and The Trojan Horse
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the world’s most famous poems but very little is known about their creator, ‘Homer’.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Inception of Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology The works attributed to him, the Iliad and the Odyssey, do not explain the entire story; rather they relate short episodes, presumably the parts sung by Homer himself, from a much larger story about a great war that ushered in the end to the Bronze Age.

Detailed explanation-3: -Homer is the ancient Greek writer behind the Iliad and the Odyssey, two of the most iconic poems of all time. Through these epic poems he took us on the journey of Odysseus as he struggled to find his way back home after the Trojan War, battling against sea monsters, temptresses, beasts and more along the way.

Detailed explanation-4: -Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey focus on the exploits of a single protagonist: the godlike warrior Achilles in the Iliad and the wily, cunning Odysseus in the Odyssey. The events Homer narrates have to do especially with the Trojan War and its aftermath, around the year 1250 B.C.E.

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