The smart quotes feature in some computer software can convert vertical quotation marks to curly ones, but sometimes imperfectly. The closing single quotation mark is identical or similar in form (depending on the font) to the apostrophe and similar to the prime symbol. However, these three characters have quite different purposes. The double quotation mark is similar toâand often used to representâthe ditto mark and the double prime symbol.
Homer (Ancient Greek: á½Î¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï [homÉËros] , HÃ³mÉËros) homÄros hÃ³mÄros is best known as the author Of the iliad And. The odyssey he was believed by The ancient greeks to have been the first and greatest of the. epic poetserodotus mentions both the Iliad and the Odyssey as works of Homer. He quotes a few lines from them both, which are the same in todayâs editions. The passage quoted from the Iliad mentions that Paris stopped at Sidon before bringing Helen to Troy.
From this perspective, The Iliad is a work of military propaganda that justifies Mycenaen control of the most valuable sea passage of age (the Bosporus), and The Odyssey justifies colonizing Italy and Sicily to the West.