Bios of famous poets

[Geoff-Allen]

How are we all today?

I was just looking 4 some info on Homer and his poems.

THe first site to catch my eye has many biographies -

Famous Poets |  

Enjoy!

 

[shunyadragon]

Lucretius is my favorite ancient poet.

From: De rerum natura - Wikipedia

De rerum natura (Latin: [deːˈreːrũn.naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

 

[David T]

How are we all today?

I was just looking 4 some info on Homer and his poems.

THe first site to catch my eye has many biographies -

Famous Poets |

Enjoy!

"Heraclitus made every effort to break out of the mold of contemporary thought. Although he was influenced in a number of ways by the thought and language of his predecessors, including the epic poets Homer and Hesiod, the poet and philosopher Xenophanes, the historian and antiquarian Hecataeus, the religious guru Pythagoras, the sage Bias of Priene, the poet Archilochus, and the Milesian philosophers, he criticized most of them either explicitly or implicitly, and struck out on his own path. He rejected polumathiê or information-gathering on the grounds that it “does not teach understanding” (B40).
e treated the epic poets as fools and called Pythagoras a fraud"


Specifically he said homer ought To be beaten. Think ayn rand of the greek world in regards to epic poets. Political.propaganda. Think mathmatical realism in context to pythagoras. One prefers linguistic realism self bs the other prefers mathmatical realism self bs. Which realism of intellecual self bs is true?

We do not evolve nearly as quickly as we imagine.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Lucretius is my favorite ancient poet.

From: De rerum natura - Wikipedia

De rerum natura (Latin: [deːˈreːrũn.naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.

Thanks for the info.

I absolutely hated poetry at school but my tastes have evolved somewhat since then

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Not sure this is precisely "on topic" but I did find an excellent book review -

National Poetry Day: William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy

May add it to my christmas wish-list ...

Cheers!