Keats has wide experience in the reading of poetry and is familiar with Homer's <span>Iliad </span><span>and </span><span>Odyssey, </span><span>but not until now has he had the special aesthetic enjoyment to be gained from reading Homer in the translation of George Chapman. For him, the discovery of Homer as translated by Chapman provides the same kind of overwhelming excitement felt by an astronomer who has discovered a new planet or by Cortez when he first saw the Pacific from a summit in Central America.</span>
The main reason could be the overexploitation since Cyrenaica became a Roman senatorial province, and the abandonment of the previous strict control over its collection.
