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The Iliad and Odyssey were some of the first things written in the Greek language. And almost everyone would have known them to begin with- Homer was basically the rockstar of his time. It was only logical to use something so well-known to teach people how to read and write.
Human mind is delighted to wallow in stories of great action. Because Homer's poems like The Iliad and The Odyssey tell tales of great continuous action, they are still being read with interest. In whichever language they are translated into, nothing great in the story is much lost after translation.
They are enjoyable stories to read.
There are no such things as "short stories" to portray Greek gods... they are all very long, but worth the read :)
The Celts primarily relied on oral tradition for the transmission of their history, stories, and knowledge. They did not have a standardized writing system like the Romans or Greeks. While some Celtic cultures had primitive forms of writing, they were not widely used or developed in the same way as the written languages of other ancient civilizations.
No, the Greeks did not "invent" literature. Babylon had its sagas and epic poems long before the Greeks, and the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh Epic - of which the Biblical story of Noah is a rewrite - was written some 1,400 years before Homer. But Greek writers like Homer and Aesop stand out from the rest of the ancient writers because their work is still widely read and appreciated.
It was a written version of the stories the bards used to sing of the legendary looting of Asia Minor by the Greeks, the capture of Troy, and the travels and travails of Odysseus' return to his home in Ithaca.
The Greeks worshipped Hestia. She was their goddess of the hearth and home.
No. But it is one of the very few stories that after 3,000 years still is widely read and considered a great adventure story - as well as a beautifully written epic poem if you read it either in the original or in a good translation that has retained the metric rhythm in which the original was written.
No. But it is one of the very few stories that after 3,000 years still is widely read and considered a great adventure story - as well as a beautifully written epic poem if you read it either in the original or in a good translation that has retained the metric rhythm in which the original was written.
The Iliad and Odyssey were some of the first things written in the Greek language. And almost everyone would have known them to begin with- Homer was basically the rockstar of his time. It was only logical to use something so well-known to teach people how to read and write.
Embedded within the narrative of Homer is a complex arrangement of other meanings in alternative syntax. Thus the narrative can be read in the literal sense. It can also be used, if you understand the key words to pair the key words and decode additional hidden meanings that generally speaking enhance the perspective of the narrative. Thus Homer was not only a literate tool, but also a mathematical cognative excerise.
The Best place would be Wattpad.com it has stories that people have written and your able to read them yourself
There are a number of websites on the internet that have stories written by cancer survivors. Some sites you may be interested in include Fighting Cancer and Experience Project.
One can read about child abuse stories from the following online sources: "Childhelp", "Guardian", "Experienceproject", "Riseaboveabuse", "Mamamia", "Reachout", "abclocal.go". These sources have real life stories written by child abuse survivors.
Brian Read has written: 'A Friend for Anna' 'The water we used' 'Men of iron' -- subject(s): Children's stories 'Vanished Liverpool and the San'Tree Man' 'Advances in Databases' 'Lucy and the Chinese eggs' -- subject(s): Children's stories
No. The ancient Greeks had organized schooling hundreds of years before the Bible was written.