Turmeric has been used for thousands of years as a medicinal preparation and a preservative and coloring agent in foods. Curcumin was isolated as the major yellow pigment in turmeric; chemically diferulomethane, and has a polyphenolic molecular structure similar to other plant pigments (eg.
The Odyssey by Homer Written 800 B.C.E. Context. NEARLY THREE THOUSAND YEARS after they were composed, the Iliad and theOdyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author.
THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY Date. These epics are the oldest surviving works of Greek literature. They were composed in the 8th century B.C. (750 for the Iliad, 720 for the Odyssey). They took their present form when Greeks learned to write using the N. Phonecian alphabet. Before that, the Greeks communicated it by oral tradition before that.