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.
Although the Odyssey and the Illiad are attributed to Homer, with history that dates back as far as this we have to tread carefully, the poems mentioned were firstly from the tradition of oral history, they were not performed untill the fifth -century Bce, and it is not certain that they were both by Homer.