Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen's Boudoir. For five seasons Dr. Blegen's group has been working at a site near Pylos in southern Greece, where the ruins of a Mycenaean palace cover the top of a hill. Most famous inhabitant of Pylos was King Nestor of the Iliad, and it is probable that the palace once belonged to him and his Queen. Eurydice. The building, which had two floors, was burned to the ground after Nestor's death, but the blacked ruins can still tell much about the people who lived there...
...century he headed the Perse School in Cambridge, where he made certain that each boy left with a conversational competence in the languages of Homer and Cicero. When he died in 1950 at 86, he left behind him first-rate, down-to-earth translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad that virtually returned Homer's classics to the common man. Total sales in the U.S. alone: 1,000,000 copies...
Last year a Roman studio produced Ulysses, a $3,200,000 version of the Odyssey, but the title role was played by Hollywood Actor Kirk Douglas, and the picture was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. The Iliad is now presented in a $6000,000 production in full color by Warner Bros., but the picture has an Italian heroine, and was actually filmed in Rome's big Cinecitta. In both cases, the blind poet, who wrote as well as any man for the mind's eye, has been translated for the camera's with all possible...
Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war correspondent of all time...
...Shakespeare, Homer, if we would include both the Iliad and the Odyessey, and Dante. I shall not be sorry tomorrow for mentioning them. I have not necessarily given them in the order of their importance...