CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 7, 2014 â Enjoy signature items from 12 Cape Girardeau restaurants and businesses participating in the âTaste of Capeâ restaurant hop, benefitting Southeast Missouri State Universityâs Department of Theatre and Dance Tuesday, April 22.
That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odysseyâso much may be said to be probable. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the worldâs literary artists.
Back to Top of Page. The Odyssey (Gr: Odysseia) is the second of the two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer (the first being The Iliad), and usually considered the second extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th Century BCE and is, in part, a sequel to The Iliad.