Bard
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A bard was a poet and singer who composed and performed verse in the service of a patron, a calling attested among the ancient Celts and continued in the medieval Celtic-speaking world. The ancient ba
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West
The Bard (c. 1817), by John Martin
Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787
Homer
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Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly rever
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…alongside comparable practices among Germanic, Gothic, and Thracian peoples, and connects them to the inherited Indo-European theme illustrated by the Homeric kléa andrôn, the 'renowns of men'. In an oral society, a warrior's renown lasted only as long as the songs that carried it, so that his fame and the…
Marble terminal bust of Homer. Roman copy of a lost 2nd-century BC Hellenistic original
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Part of an eleventh-century manuscript, "the Townley Homer". The writings on the top and right side are scholia.
Page from the first printed edition (editio princeps) of collected works by Homer edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Florence, 1489, Bibliothèque Nationale de France