Little is known about the life of Homer; the author credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey, and arguably the greatest poet of the ancient world. Historians place his birth sometime around 750 BC and conjecture that he was born and resided in or near Chios.
There is some evidence to support the theory that The Iliad and The Odyssey were written by different authors, perhaps as much as a century apart. It is certain, that neither text was written down upon creation. By the eighth century BC written text had been almost entirely forgotten in Greece. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey conform to the diction of a purely oral and unwritten poetic speech that was used before the end of that century. This author has been recommended by 23 other readers. | |
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