
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Who was Homer? Did the city of Troy really exist? And if it did, why did the Greeks attack it?
Join us on the Oh-My-Geekers podcast while we uncover Zeus’s devious plans for population control, Achilles’ legendary temper tantrum, and Paris’ misguided quest to become a stud as we dive into the first part of Homer’s Iliad.
Further Reading:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Homer-Greek-poet/Modern-inferences
https://archive.org/details/herodotus-life-of-homer-loeb-496-archive/mode/2up
https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Dark_Age/
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/search-lost-city-troy
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=3&highlight=Judgment+of+Paris%2C
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6150/pg6150-images.html
By Thrasher Digital5
55 ratings
Who was Homer? Did the city of Troy really exist? And if it did, why did the Greeks attack it?
Join us on the Oh-My-Geekers podcast while we uncover Zeus’s devious plans for population control, Achilles’ legendary temper tantrum, and Paris’ misguided quest to become a stud as we dive into the first part of Homer’s Iliad.
Further Reading:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Homer-Greek-poet/Modern-inferences
https://archive.org/details/herodotus-life-of-homer-loeb-496-archive/mode/2up
https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Dark_Age/
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/search-lost-city-troy
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=3&highlight=Judgment+of+Paris%2C
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6150/pg6150-images.html