Pseudo-Plutarch, On Homer, in Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer, edited and translated by Martin L. West (2003), p. 413
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You were born of no mortal mother, but of Calliope.
— Pseudo-Plutarch
What It Means
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About Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
About Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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