Iliad. Odyssey. Homer

Homer (VIII in BC) - the greatest poet of antiquity, the father of poetry, the only poet, as his Greeks called him, has been unanimously recognized as the spiritual light of world culture, the ancestor of all European literature.

The ancient Greeks saw in Homer not only the great poet, but the prophet, the philosopher, the teacher of life, and every word "Iliad" and "Odyssey" was considered the indisputable truth. “Just as, according to Homer, all rivers and streams originate from the ocean, the source has any verbal art in Homer,” wrote Mikhail Honiat, the Byzantine writer of the XIII century.

included in this publication Classical translations of the Homeric epic are masterpieces of domestic verbal art created by N.I. Gnedich and V.A. Zhukovsky.

An illustrative series of publications is represented by the works of famous artists J. Flaxman and F. Sortler.