Empires Documentary - The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization - A4

eastern Mediterranean. Chios was home to a guild of poets, or rhapsodists, called the Homeridai, and seems to be one of the most likely candidates. However, many other Greek cities have also claimed to have been his home, as an old Greek epigram says: "Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,Through which the living Homer begged his bread?" Homer's verses were first set down in writing around 700 BC, soon after the Greeks invented their own alphabet by incorporating vowels into the ...
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