Life of Homer

Homer

Homer, a greek poet and one of the first of his time wrote, "The Odyssey and

The Iliad." There is much not known about this man but the few pieces of

information written about him. He is believed to lived between 1100 through 800

B.C. seeing how The Iliad revolves around the Trojan War. Many historians

believe him to be the first of man to write literature of the western world. The only

resources on him are from the ancient times of the Greeks. The Greeks looked

at him as the greatest poet, and their first as well. Some people believe their

were poets before him but evidence on them were destroyed or never written

down. There are two places said to be the place of his home. One is the island

Chios and the other was Smyrna, present day Izmir.

All ancient and traditional sources say he was blind and that Homer may

have been used as a term for a common blind man. Many scholars believe his

work is the most evidence about him and what he was like. For instance the

way the blind man is described in The Odyssey gives indication of him being

blind. As before some believe there never was a homer just bits of information

pasted down from bard to bard remaking the story each time. But the majority

of the people believe the was a great poet named Homer and an original

artist of his time using previous ways of telling a story to his times current way

of expressing a story. It is possible that he rewrote his stories over and over

again and never finished a final