~ HOMER  or HOMERUS
         id+ | PRIME THEOLOGIAN |
  hx> HOMER [#] IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE AUTHOR OF
      TWO GREAT EPIC POEMS
  THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY
  some experts consider the ILIAD to be
  PRIMARILY A A SOURCE and the ODYSSEY
  AS THE CARDINAL SOURCE OF ESTHETIC VALUES
  BOTH ARE known as HOMERIC POEMS
  WHICH WERE RECITED OR PERFORMED BY
  RHAPSODES    sug> RHAPSODY  sug> RAPTURE
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& HOMER
  hx> HOMER IS CALLED " THE FATHER OF POETRY "
      SEVEN CITIES          {not always the same seven cities}
  CLAIM TO BE HIS BIRTHPLACE
  note that THE TEXT WAS "EDITED" or
  " EXPURGATED "                            sug> PURGED PURGA
  most likely by ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOTHRACE probably 150 BC
        WHO AS THE HEAD OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY ATTUNED
  THE PRIMITIVE EPIC POEMS TO THE TASTES AND SENSIBILITIES
  OF HIS TIMES
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& HOMER
  lit+ " THERE IS ROMANCE IN THE CONCEPTION OF
         THE DIVINE POET
  BLIND  OLD AND POOR
  WANDERING FROM CITY TO CITY AND
  IT MAY WELL BE REAL HISTORY
  SINCE ALMOST ALWAYS STORIES IDENTIFY HOMER
  AS COMING FROM IONIA and
  ALMOST ALWAYS FROM THE PART OF IONIA KNOWN AS
  AEOLIC " in [44]
  note BARD BARDS are often seen as BLIND POETS and MUSICIANS
       and to be FOLKLORISTS AND MASTERS OF ORAL HISTORY
  hx> MANY CONSIDER HOMER TO BE AMONG THE
      EARLIEST THEOLOGIANS SINCE HIS WRITINGS ARE
  PERMEATED WITH MORAL CONSIDERATIONS AND
  ARE REGISTERED IN CLASSIC MYTHOLOGY
  HOMER SHOWS WAR AS A TRAGEDY
  WHICH DESTROYS THE BOUNDS OF LAW AND MORALITY
  AMONG THE PRINCIPLES DEVELOPED BY HOMER
  ARE IDEAS OF "SELF SHAME" or CONSCIENCE
  as in PANG REGRET RESTRAINT SCRUPLE MORAL
  which are encapsulated in the idea of
  see> NEMESIS and see> AIDOS
  note the importance of
  sug> INDIGNATION  DIGNIFY DIGNITY related to
       HONOR  GRACE  GLORY  ETHIC  PRIDE  ESTEEM
  REPUTATION  RESPECT  REVERENCE  STATURE  FAME
  INFAMY HOMAGE  WRATH  FURY  VIRTUE  HONESTY
  INTEGRITY  GENEROSITY
  see> ILIAD  ODYSSEY