![]() ![]() Because of its outstanding literary quality, his work soon became a huge success. When writing was reinvented in its alphabetic form, Homer used it to preserve his poems for posterity. The Epic Cycle was passed down orally from generation to generation after the knowledge of writing had been lost among Greek peoples. Homer derived the subject of his poetry from the great Epic Cycle that had been preserved in the collective memories of the heroic era of the Late Bronze Age. His epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, revolve around the Trojan War. The prevailing scholarly consensus places him in the 8th century BCE. ![]() Homer is considered to have been the first poet of the West. Because of the Iliad’s and the Odyssey’s popularity, orally transmitted accounts of historical events were gradually forgotten. Homer, who is considered the first poet of the Occident, picked up themes from this epic cycle and transformed them for his purposes. As a consequence, memories of the heroic age were initially passed down orally. With the collapse of the advanced civilizations at the end of the Bronze Age, the knowledge of writing was lost. ![]()
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