[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #3375, aired 1999-04-16 [PAR] Great epic-writing Ionian: 9th century B.C. .... His engaging performance in "The 
Last Picture Show" earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination... [DOC] [TLE] Greek Dark Ages - Wikipedia [PAR] The Greek Dark Age, also called Greek Dark Ages, Geometric period or Homeric 
Age, is the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial 
civilization around 1100 BC to the first signs of the Greek poleis in the 9th century 
BC. ... In Greece, the Linear B writing of the Greek language used by Mycenaean
... [DOC] [TLE] Epic poetry - Wikipedia [PAR] An epic poem, epic epos or epopee (from French pope, from neo-Latin 
epopoeia, from Ancient Greek , epopoiia) is a lengthy narrative poem, 
ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and 
events significant to a ... Early twentieth-century study of living oral epic traditions 
in the Balkans by... [DOC] [TLE] Hesiod - Wikipedia [PAR] Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active 
between 750 and .... Thereafter, Greek writers began to consider Homer earlier 
than Hesiod. ... Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, the 5th 
century BC .... an Ionian epic poet at a time when digamma was not heard in 
Ionian speech,... [DOC] [TLE] Ionian Islands - Wikipedia [PAR] The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called 
the Heptanese ... 7 Major communities; 8 See also; 9 References; 10 External 
links ... Ithaca was the name of the island home of Odysseus in the epic Ancient 
Greek ... By the 4th century BC, most of the islands, were absorbed into the 
empire of... [DOC] [TLE] Homer- Ancient Greek Poet [PAR] Homer - Ancient Greek Epic Poet of the Odyssey and Iliad ... Born around 8th - 
9th century B.C. he was said to be a court singer and a story teller. ... But the 
dialect and the description in the poems pointed that Homer lived in Ionia. ... 
important part of the Greek culture as they were written during the famous Trojan 
war era. [DOC] [TLE] Greece, A History of Ancient Greece, Homeric Epics [PAR] For the Greeks of the 7th century BC, however, these books were their history. ... 
been credited with putting the ancient Greek legends into writing is Homer. ... The 
later historian Herodotus (5th century BC) said that Homer was a Greek from 
Ionia ... 300 years before an alphabet reached Greece in the 9th or 8th century 
BC. [DOC] [TLE] Homer | Greek poet | Britannica.com [PAR] Although these two great epic poems of ancient Greece have always been 
attributed to the ... Homer, (flourished 9th or 8th century bce?, Ionia? .... kind of 
poetry made and passed down by word of mouth and without the intervention of 
writing. [DOC] [TLE] The History of Greece - Hellenic Foundation [PAR] The second millennium B.C gave birth to some great civilizations: the .... Not until 
the very last century of the period was there any general knowledge of writing. ... 
into a great epic cycle by one or more poets and put into written form in the ninth 
... in the islands and on the coast in the area of the Aegean and Ionian Seas. [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Greece - Internet History Sourcebooks [PAR] It is a civilization, too, which has long been familiar with the art of writing. ... As 
late as the beginning of the 9th century B.C. Cyprus is still ruled by kings, the 
alphabet has not .... They are divided into three great branches, the Dorian, the 
Ionian and the Aeolian, ..... Greek literature was no longer synonymous with epic 
poetry. [DOC] [TLE] Homer facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] Homer, the major figure in ancient Greek literature, has been universally ... The 
Iliad and the Odyssey, two long epic poems surviving in a surprisingly large .... 
Ionian sailors such as explored the western seas during the 7th century B.C. and 
... the period before the art of writing had been sufficiently developed

Question: Great epic-writing Ionian:9th century B.C.
Answer: Homer