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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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