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163 "Homer, the blind Greek poet..."
"Homer (ancient Greek: µηρος, Homēros) was an ancient Greek (Ionian) epic poet,
traditionally considered the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. No reliable
biographical information about Homer survives from classical antiquity. The cardinal
qualities of the style of Homer have been well articulated by Matthew Arnold: "the translator
of Homer," he says, "should above all be penetrated by a sense of the four qualities of his
author: that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution
of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he
is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas;
and finally, that he is eminently noble".
The language used by Homer is an archaic version of Ionic Greek, with admixtures from
certain other dialects, such as Aeolic Greek. It later served as the basis of Epic Greek, the
language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter.
A number of traditions hold that he was blind (perhaps because, in the Aeolian dialect of
Cyme, homēros bore this meaning) and that he was born on the island of Chios, at Smyrna
or elsewhere in Ionia, where various cities vied in claiming him as one of their native sons.
The characterization of Homer as a blind bard is supported by a possibly self-referential
passage in the Odyssey in which a shipwrecked Odysseus listens to the tales of a blind bard
named Demodocus while in the court of the Phaeacian king."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
164 "Solon, a wise man from Greece reported the existence of Atlantis.."
"Solon was a famous Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and Lyric poet. The travel writer,
Pausanias, listed Solon among the Seven Sages of the ancient world. Solon has acquired a
place in history and in folklore through his efforts to legislate against political, economic and
moral decline in archaic Athens. Some of his reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often
credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
After he had finished reforming the country, Solon traveled abroad. His first stop was Egypt.
There he visited Heliopolis, where he discussed philosophy with an Egyptian expert on the
subject, Psenophis. Subsequently, at Sais, he visited Neith's temple and received from
the priests there an account of the history of Atlantis. Solon wrote out this history as
a poem, to which Plato subsequently made references in his dialogues Timaios and
Critias. Next Solon sailed to Cyprus, where he oversaw the construction of a new capital for
a local king, in gratitude for which the king named it Soloi."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
165 " Zoroaster..."
"Zoroaster, the prophet and poet sees the universe as the cosmic struggle between aša
“truth” and druj “lie.” The cardinal concept of aša - which is highly nuanced and only vaguely
translatable - is at the foundation of all other Zoroastrian doctrine, including that of Ahura
Mazda (who is aša), creation (that is aša), existence (that is aša) and Free Will, which is
arguably Zoroaster’s greatest contribution to religious philosophy. The purpose of
humankind, like that of all other creation, is to sustain aša. For humankind, this occurs
through active participation in life and the exercise of good thoughts, words and deeds.
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