The surviving lines from a mostly lost work attributed to this author note that "the gods taught [the title character] neither to dig nor to plow [and] he failed at every craft." Another mostly lost work tells of the cunning brothers Acmon and Passalus, whose refusal to avoid Heracles causes them to be turned to stone by Zeus. In addition to Margites and Cercopes, the complete destruction of one side in a war is forestalled by the arrival of a crab army in his Batrochomyomachia, or the Battle of Frogs and Mice. He also wrote about the blind minstrel Demodocus, whose infirmity may be the basis for the supposition that this author also suffered it. FTP, name this author who wrote of the wrath of Achilles in an epic po
The surviving lines from a mostly lost work attributed to this author note that "the gods taught [the title character] neither to dig nor to plow [and] he failed at every craft." Another mostly lost work tells of the cunning brothers Acmon and Passalus, whose refusal to avoid Heracles causes them to be turned to stone by Zeus. In addition to Margites and Cercopes, the complete destruction of one side in a war is forestalled by the arrival of a crab army in his Batrochomyomachia, or the Battle of Frogs and Mice. He also wrote about the blind minstrel Demodocus, whose infirmity may be the basis for the supposition that this author also suffered it. FTP, name this author who wrote of the wrath of Achilles in an epic poem that's like the basis of Western Civilization.
The surviving lines from a mostly lost work attributed to this author note that "the gods taught [the title character] neither to dig nor to plow [and] he failed at every craft."
{Homer}