The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked ...

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Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.

The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

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How did the Iliad, attributed to Homer and composed in the seventh century BC, quickly become famous among the Greeks?

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By Zhou Tongsu and Shang Bing At the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, there are two statues standing face to face in the ...

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