Homer was the ancient greek writer who brought us odyssey and the iliad. If homer did in fact compose the works, he is one of the. The poem is the story of odysseus, king of ithaca, who wanders for 10 years.
Homer was a famous greek poet known for epic tales like the iliad and the odyssey. Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient greek poet homer. We uncover some key facts on one of history's most influential poets.
Not much is known about homer, or if he even existed, but he is culturally conjured as a blind greek oral poet who lived in either 9th or 8th century bce and is considered to be the author. Homer, the legendary ancient greek poet of the iliad and the odyssey, remains an enigmatic figure. Though his epics profoundly influenced western literature, little is definitively. Many think homer was blind, and his name might mean 'blind' or 'captive' in ancient.
750 bce) is perhaps the greatest of all epic poets and his legendary status was well established by the time of classical athens. Homer is the presumed author of the iliad and the odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient greece. [2][20] the first early implicit references to. Other than a putative date of birth, the only thing that authors of antiquity agree upon is that homer was blind, and that he probably lived in the greek isles of the mediterranean.