…(8th century bc), Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, although modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a preliterate oral tradition. In later antiquity, Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others…
…(1836–1910), US painter. He is noted for his seascapes, such as Cannon Rock (1895), painted in a vigorous naturalistic style that combines imagination and strength and is considered an expression of the American pioneering spirit…
…even the best person sometimes makes a mistake due to a momentary lack of alertness or attention…
