This author names epic similes extending over many poetic lines.
Hugh Evelyn-White collected 33 hymns in dactylic hexameter that are named for, but not written by, this author. A poem by this author repeats phrases like "swift-footed" and "breaker of horses", and spends 250 lines cataloguing ships and 120 lines describing a shield. Horace coined the phrase "even &lt;this author&gt; (*) nods." This author names epic similes extending over many poetic lines. The wine-dark sea and the rosy fingers of dawn are examples of his epithets. This author described a hero who's so angry that his friend Patroclus is killed, that he drags Hector's body around Troy for a week. For 10 points, name this blind poet of the Iliad.
Hugh Evelyn-White collected 33 hymns in dactylic hexameter that are named for, but not written by, this author.
Homer