Homer Archives - There Plant Eyes

1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 28, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the first chapter of There Plant Eyes, we travel back to the formative years of blindness in the Western cultural imagination: namely, the text of The Odyssey (traditionally ascribed to Homer), where so many ...

‘The Odyssey’ BOOK VIII * Featuring the Blind Bard Demodocus

Posted on July 27, 2021Blindness and Literature

In Book VII of The Odyssey we meet Demodocus, the blind bard who is in large part responsible for our association of Homer with blindness. The below text comes from Alexander Pope’s 1726 translation of ...