| 044 | What do you know of the Greek poet Homer (who lived in roughly 8th century BCE)? |
| 044 | The poems of Homer were well known as reflected in the 2nd century BCE when Cicero made a joke about Homer’s structural use of chiasmus (circular parallels) “I’ll be like Homer and put the cart before the horse.” | Cicero, Letters to Atticus ed T.Page and W.Rouse, Trans. B.Winstedt (London:William Heineman, 1919) |