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Bookmark or Share- Homer | Biography, Poems, & Facts | BritannicaHomer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. If Homer did in fact compose the works, he is one of the greatest literary artists in the world, and, through these poems, he affected Western standards and ideas.
- Who was Homer? | British MuseumHomer, the name attached to the two poems, remains a mysterious figure. Was he a man? Was 'Homer' a group or lineage of poets? Was Homer a woman? The late-19th-century novelist Samuel Butler was convinced that the author of the Odyssey, at least, was female. For most people in antiquity, however, the two epics were the products of a single male ...
- Homer - World History EncyclopediaHomer (c. 750 BCE) is perhaps the greatest of all epic poets and his legendary status was well established by the time of Classical Athens. He composed (not wrote, since the poems were created and transmitted orally, they were not written down until much later) two major works, the Iliad and the Odyssey ; other works were attributed to Homer ...
- Homer: Biography, Greek Poet, The Iliad, The OdysseyThe Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC, possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor. He is famous for the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, which have...
- Homer and the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey | BritannicaHomer, (flourished 9th or 8th century bce, Ionia?), ancient Greek poet, presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Though almost nothing is known of his life, tradition holds that Homer was blind. The ancient Greeks attributed to him the great epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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