Homer
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Greek The great poet of ancient Greece
to whom the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey
are usually attributed. Although he is Greece's
most famous name, hardly anything is known about
Homer. His birthdate is estimated between 1050
and 750 b.c. His birthplace is not known, though
the island of Chios, off the coast of Ionia, in Asia
Minor, is a likely location according to references in
the poems. Some say that the work of Homer may
have been a kind of anthology of ancient writings
that Homer gathered together with great genius and
poetical unity. Other scholars say that the Iliad and
the Odyssey were the work of a single poet, developed
from older legendary material.
Whatever the origins of the poet, the poems had a
tremendous influence on the Greeks, providing them
with an elementary education in their mythology.
Homer's works have been of enormous value to historians,
archaeologists, and students of comparative
religion. His stories preserve the social and religious
customs of the late Bronze Age Achaeans who invaded
Troy (3000 b.c.). After the fall of the Achaeans, there
were three or four centuries of "darkness" until the
great flowering of culture in the fifth century b.c.
known as Classical Greece.
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