Bbc History: Historic Figures: Homer (Ca. 750 650 Bc)

Brief biography of playwright William Shakespeare, including personal information and life as a poet and actor.

Brief biography of Mac Bethad mac Findlaich (Macbeth), eleventh-century Scottish king and title character in William Shakespeare's tragedy.

Biography of British journalist and author George Orwell, including personal background and history as a writer.

Biography of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, including personal background and history as a writer.

Brief biography of English writer and critic Samuel Johnson, including personal background, career information and important works.

Brief biography of Rudyard Kipling, English writer and Nobel Prize recipient.

Brief biography of English war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Brief biography of Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and critic Oscar Wilde.

Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.

Because the monsters Scylla, Charybdis, and Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey are fictional, scholars may assume the Iliad is also entirely fictional. A carefully researched video describes Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of the...