It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.