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

‘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 ...

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