Homer

Homer (gr. Ὅμηρος Hómēros) a fost un poet și rapsod grec legendar, căruia i se atribuie scrierea Iliadei (Ἰλιάς) și Odiseei (Ὀδύσσεια). În antichitate, i-a fost atribuit uneori întregul Ciclu Epic, care includea alte poeme despre războiul troian, precum și poeme tebane despre Oedipus și fiii săi. Alte opere, precum corpul Cântecelor religioase homerice, mini-epopeea comică Batrachomyomachia ("Războiul dintre broască și șoarece" Βατραχομυομαχία) și epopeea Margites i-au fost atribuite, însă în prezent aceste fapte sunt privite cu incertitudine. Tradiția spune că Homer ar fi fost orb, iar diferite orașe ioniene își revendicau locul de naștere al poetului, însă mai departe biografia sa este aproape necunoscută. Există o dezbatere intelectuală considerabilă în privința existenței lui Homer ca persoană reală, unii...

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Homer

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Grigoraș V.Vasilică

Born in his hometown Constanta, Tomis Boulevard 310 from a peasant family , his father being jokeu stud horse Mangalia , turn from a family of horse breeders village Lucina PROTV broadcast television . His mother was a very religious woman educating his son before educators and teachers , knowing the alphabet and read it before he go to kindergarten . Reading the newspapers every day to the elders at the gate. Starting kindergarten classes, already his mother teaches arithmetic and math , so his son years in a row only take first prize every year in courses taken at the secondary school in the town of Ovidiu, where his parents moved . His mother dies at her birthday on 5 november 1978, after his father married with a vicious woman practicing prostitution to place Herringbone of Wheat. In 1984 begins Industrial High School Marina of Constanta, under the tutelage of the Ministry of National Defense, where parallel attends the Higher Institute of Information , specialty Psychology -...

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Billy Collins

William J. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the 44th Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2001 to 2003. In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004. He was recently appointed Claire Berman Artist in Residence at The Roxbury Latin School, in West Roxbury, MA. He is a distinguished professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Collins was born in New York City to William and Katherine Collins. He attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and received a B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his M.A. and Ph.D in English from the University of California, Riverside. He was a student of Victorian Scholar and poet Robert Peters at Riverside. Collins is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, where he joined the faculty in 1968 and has...

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