The poet’s signature turn of phrase is “wine ... Western Lit 101 may already be thinking of one explanation: Homer was blind. Naturally, colors would not have been a big part of his poetic ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

It is a popular belief that Homer was blind, but the idea that he was color-blind will much better solve some of the difficulties which Homeric critics meet with in the world of the great bard.

In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with the words “Sing, daughter of Zeus” in the first lines of his epic poem, the ...