person
Homer
The early Greek epic poet of the Iliad and Odyssey; cited as having owned a single slave, an emblem of the ancients' simplicity.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §12 Homer had one slave
The archetypal Greek poet; Seneca notes he had but one slave, against the swollen households of his own day.
- Consolation to Polybius §8 Homer
The early Greek epic poet of the Iliad and Odyssey, named with Virgil as a benefactor of mankind whose works Polybius had translated.
- On Benefits §1.3.7 Homer
The Greek epic poet; in the Iliad he makes one of the Graces, Pasithea, a bride promised to Sleep.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.27.6 Homer
The early Greek epic poet to whom the Iliad and Odyssey were ascribed, the foundation of Greek literary education.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.40.2 Homer
The Greek epic poet; Seneca alludes to the Iliad, where Odysseus's words fall thick and fast 'like winter snows' (the younger orator) while Nestor's speech runs 'sweeter than honey' (the old man).
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.31 Homer
The early Greek epic poet; Seneca notes the potter's wheel already appears in Homer, against the claim that a later sage devised it.