Homer Poet

In the new film "Troy," there are two writers credited: David Benioff, a screenwriter and novelist in his early 30s who has of late become a very hot literary property in Hollywood, and Homer, the blind Ionian bard who, scholars think, died between 800 and 600 years before Christ, somewhere in the Mediterranean. Benioff, as you can imagine, has sterling representation. He's handled by two agents at the William Morris Agency, and he has a manager and lawyer as well, as has become the custom.

In the new film "Troy," there are two writers credited: David Benioff, a screenwriter and novelist in his early 30s who has of late become a very hot literary property in Hollywood, and Homer, the blind Ionian bard who, scholars think, died between 800 and 600 years before Christ, somewhere in the Mediterranean. Benioff, as you can imagine, has sterling representation. He's handled by two agents at the William Morris Agency, and he has a manager and lawyer as well, as has become the custom.

It's a weekend event the two Homers would enjoy immensely. Homer the poet would savor the nonstop Greek dancing, the music, the lore, the vitality. Homer the Simpson would savor the loukomathes--honey-soaked Greek doughnut holes, the baklava, the kourambiethes, the galaktobouriko and all the other tongue-twisting delights dished up at the Ventura County Greek Festival. "People come from all over for the wholesome food made from strict Greek recipes," said Father Cyril Loeb, pastor of St.

The literature of war begins with literature itself, with "The Iliad." Homer's epic about the Greek siege of Troy, composed perhaps 2,800 years ago, still stands unexcelled as an expression of the devastating power of war, the tragedy it begets and the emotions it unleashes -- its glamour as well as its horror.