Barbara Graziosi, Professor of Classics at Durham University, is the author of Inventing Homer and coauthor, with Johannes Haubold, of Homer: The Resonance of Epic. She is coeditor of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon and The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies.
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Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived,' is something of a myste... SEE MORE