The Iliad
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MulletChamp.com states that the mullet has a long history: “Homer even described a haircut that sounds eerily familiar in The Iliad: ‘their forelocks cropped, hair grown long at the backs.’”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Experts first found the artwork, which depicts scenes from Trojan war epic The Iliad, in a dig in 2021.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022
In the ancient Greek epic The Iliad, the hero Achilles loses his best friend Patroclus in battle and then inwardly tortures himself because he failed to shield Patroclus from harm.
From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2022
Homer’s epic poems – The Iliad and The Odyssey – were written down in this period after being recited in oral form by traveling singers for centuries.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
The Iliad and Odyssey were composed and transmitted by nonliterate bards for nonliterate listeners, and not committed to writing until the development of the Greek alphabet hundreds of years later.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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