The Llaid And The Odyssey

Homer Do you think you could compose two great works of art? Well Homer did. He was the composer of the Llaid and the Odyssey. Many places claim to be his birth place. People also think that he didn’t write the Odyssey or the Llaid by his self. The oldest version of the Llaid is inside St. Marks church in Venice, a hand written manuscript (James Lloyd 1). The poems were first organized, complied, and edited under the Athenian Pisistratus. The first printed editions of Homer were in 1488 CE, in Florence by Chalcondules of Athens. The article states that, “Homer's work has hugely influential on Greek culture, and scenes from his works appeared in Greek sculpture, on Greek pottery, and in Greek tragedy and comedy” (Lloyd 1). No one