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The text explains how numerical data carefully embedded in the poem can be analyzed to resolve an enduring historical mystery. It also frames Homer and the poet-singers as guardians of understanding of the sun, moon, planets, stars, and timekeeping, suggesting origins of some concealed learning as early as c.2300 BC.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWe are indebted to Penguin Books for permission to use quotations from The Odyssey, by E.V. Rieu (1967 reprint; revised by D.C.H. Rieu, 1991) . Quotations by other translators are occasionally introduced to illustrate that while literary styles may differ there is a consensus on content.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIllustrations include a number by Gill Garfield-Ralph which give a modern interpretation of images created by the association of mythology with stars and constellations. The caption for each of these contains the attribution ‘G. G-R’.  \nIllustrations by Robert Flaxman (1755–1826) are from L’Odysseed’Homere gravee par Reveil d’apres les compositions de John Flaxman (Paris, 1835), posted on Wikimedia, to which a contribution has been made.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHomer ’s Secret Iliad (1999) examined the Iliad as a source of considerable astronomical knowledge, including a detailed chart of stars and constellations linked to the warriors and regiments that fought at Troy, movements of the planets, an ancient concept of an earth-centred universe and observations concerning the precession of the equinoxes.  \nIt is a superb piece of detective work …the argument is arresting. Truth has its own kind of elegance and these …authors have stumbled upon a truth that is breathtaking.  \nThe Scotsman  \nIt will be difficult to look at the night sky, or Homer, in the same way again.  \nFinancial Times  \nA new and remarkable reading that seems to throw the Iliad in a completely new light.  \nBBC World Service  \nIn this vast celestial board game of a book, the Woods interpret Homer ’s bloodstained account of the Trojan war as one huge didactic mnemonic device that enabled his audience to fix the constellations precisely in their minds. As we read, our scepticism …is increasingly undermined by flashes of open-mindedness.  \nThe Good Book Guide  \n…The Woods’ reading of the [Iliad] is highly exciting.  \nThe Times  \nThe poet Alice Oswald chose Homer ’s Secret Iliad as one of her books of the year in The Guardian, 2003.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nDare-devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you [Odysseus] not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood? (Odyssey 13.291)  \nHomer is renowned as the ancient world’s most famous storyteller and the finest of all the bards who, for countless generations, passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of ancient Greece. Yet, for more than 2000 years there has been a persistent but unresolved belief that encrypted in his two magnificent epics was a wealth of secret learning. Ground-breaking research now reveals that creating and preserving the cultural heritage of the Greeks of antiquity was only part of the achievement of Homer and the storytellers known as the poet-singers. They were also the guardians of wide-ranging astronomical knowledge about the sun, moon, planets, stars and calendar-making. This learning was embedded in the stories they recited during the many centuries the Greeks did not possess a written script. Homer ’s Secret Odyssey is the extraordinary account of how the breaking of ingenious codes solves one of history’s most enduring mysteries and adds a sublime new dimension to the achievements of the ancient Greeks. Sound – even breathtaking – support for these views comes from a unique analysis of the extensive numerical data that Homer deliberately and carefully inserted into the epic. A case will also be outlined for the oldest learning concealed in the Odyssey to have originated as early as c.2300 BC, and from well beyond the boundaries of Greek-speaking peoples.  \nHomer (c.745–700 BC) is a towering figure in western culture and was amongst the last of the old tradition of oral poets. 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