Homer

Homer was A Greek poet who wrote many great epics. He wrote the Iliad, which was the story of the conquering of Troy, and the Odyssey, which was about Ulysses's wanderings. The place where he was born has been disputed for years, but many think it was on a Greek colony off the coast of Asia Minor. People have often argued over whether the works of him were actually by him or if his followers actually wrote them. If Homer did in fact write them, nobody really knows

Homer was alive in 700 B.C., which was also known as the Archaic period of Greece. It is said he was blind, this might not be true because many poets claimed to have been blind. They would say that they could see things that others couldn’t, that they could see and knew what the gods were doing.


In Ancient Greece part of their education was to read Homer. But, only males were allowed to attend school. It was essential for the young boys to read Homer’s works while in school. To the Greeks, Homer's stories were just as important to them as the Bible is for us today. In school the Greeks memorized parts of Homer’s epics. They memorized it so that they could recite it to others so that others would say or think in the same way as them.


Homer was an early Ancient Greek poet who wrote the major Greek epics. The Iliad and the Odyssey. These two writings were stories about myths and legends. In 7th century B.C though, these books were the Greeks history. Their past had been destroyed by the take down of the Mycenaean Civilization. Others say that Homer was a blind man that went from place to place reciting poems that had come down to him from an old tradition.


Many scholars believe that Homer was not the only one to write these epics tough. They believe that his followers helped in the writing of it. It is possible that a lot of the epics were written in the 9th or 8th century B.C. If so, that means that Homer used earlier writings to write them.