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