History-Makers: Homer

"History-Makers" is a new series from Blue, digging into the backstories of history's most influential writers and their great works. We begin at the beginning, with the Greek poet Homer, trying to figure out how exactly he wound up with the Iliad and Odyssey!

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[richeybaumann]

I like to imagine Homer, this old blind dude, just standing up in front of his audience, probably leaning on a stick or something, and suddenly rapping the entire Illiad flawlessly.

[brettshair]

Of course, Homer~
The composer of Troy Story and Troy Story 2

[stravickovmahn]

I don't know what's better, the idea of Greek poets having enough stock in their back pocket the spin epic battles 8 Mile style. Or Homer creating his own version of Marvel Cinematic Universe thousands of years ago

[Estarfigam]

Before the MCU there was the GBU (Greek Bardic Universe)

[poweroffriendship.]

*Achilles:* [hits Hector with the chair]

*Hector:* _DO'H!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE DONE THIS!!!_ [dies]

[yoschiii]

Is nobody going to say anything about the Baby Blue Bowl cut?
No?
Ok

[cindysarangay]

I swear, every time I click on an OSP video I always think I've learned the topic enough only to get blasted with knowledge Blue and Red probably had to fish from the remnants of the Library of Alexandria to get. Well done, guys. A++ content as always. 👌

[KnowingBetter]

So Homer is basically the Walt Disney of Ancient Greece...

[Skipston]

... this was posted the exact minute I finished my Iliad Final. I'm not sure whether to be happy or furious.

[artemiswolf]

So the Iliad is Homer’s dark gritty reboot of an already existing story?

Is Homer the Tim Burton of Ancient Greece?

[DavidbarZeus]

Here's a scary note: the oldest copy we have of Homer's works dates to more than a millennium after Homer died, about 300 AD.

[wargriffin]

Wait, the Iliad and Odyssey are supposed to be sung?...…..






Now, this is a story;
All about how,
the city of Troy
turned upside

[levkrasovsky]

The inclusion of "We are Number One" lyrics cracked me up so hard when I noticed them! XD

[artemiswolf]

I like to think that after the apocalypse, when civilization gets rebuilt there will be historians dedicated to study the infinity war saga and there’s going to be a bunch of crazy theories for things that don’t make sense to them.

“So this Spider-Man character seems to have a big, pronounce introduction to the story even tho his involvement was minimal overall, his origin story isn’t even mentioned. We think he was a massively worship deity BEFORE the infinity war saga”

“We have concluded that there most be a story bit missing between Thor and Thor Ragnarok, but why the ancient ones decided not to mention it, that we may never know”

“Guardians of the Galaxy was written hundreds of years after the original text and then retroactively inserted, because boy it does not make tonal sense with the rest of the narrative”

“Iron man is clearly a more modern interpretation of the god Batman made by another civilization, the similarities are just too many”

“The winter soldier and Capitan America where lovers, is barely even subtext”

[nowhereman]

I hope that some time in the future someone is going to write "The World War" and get locations, people and battles mixed up and then even farther into the future this guy will be a mythical writer.

[NaamahTheia]

It's okay Blue, you can just say that it's ancient fanfiction.

[monduvdsan]

"MCU is the Epic cycle of the modern Era"

*Smashes like button*

Absolutly yes, I think the same.

[JaelaOrdo]

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
-Homer

[korben]

Can you *PLEASE* elaborate on that MCU = Epic Cycle theory? Comics + history? That sounds AMAZING.

[amyfiori]

"If you're famously blind, that's got to put a bit of a damper on your writing capabilities". Here we see where Red and Blue differ. If this were a Red video, I GUARANTEE Toph would have shown up at some point in that sentence.