Homer Biography
Biography on homer
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* Is the author of the Iliad * Is the author of the Odyssey, and * is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet * When he lived is controversial. * Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, * which would place him at around 850 BC * Other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the War, around in early 12th century BC. * For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created * The Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature. * Homer was described as the teacher of Greece * Homer's works were about fifty percent speeches * The Greek poet Homer lived sometime in the 9th or 8th century. * His exact lifetime remains in debate * Most of what is known about him comes from his work. * Was born in Greece * Was thought to have lived around 99 years old * little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached to the poems * He is also one of the most influential authors * that Homer must have lived not much later than the Trojan War * he had sang about the Trojan war * The general belief that Homer was a native of Ionia * Ionia is the central part of the western seaboard of Asia Minor * It seems reasonable conjectures for the poems themselves are in predominantly Ionic dialect. * Although Smyrna began competing for the honor * Chios began competing for the honor
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* Is the author of the Iliad * Is the author of the Odyssey, and * is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet * When he lived is controversial. * Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, * which would place him at around 850 BC * Other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the War, around in early 12th century BC. * For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created * The Iliad being the oldest work of Western literature. * Homer was described as the teacher of Greece * Homer's works were about fifty percent speeches * The Greek poet Homer lived sometime in the 9th or 8th century. * His exact lifetime remains in debate * Most of what is known about him comes from his work. * Was born in Greece * Was thought to have lived around 99 years old * little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached to the poems * He is also one of the most influential authors * that Homer must have lived not much later than the Trojan War * he had sang about the Trojan war * The general belief that Homer was a native of Ionia * Ionia is the central part of the western seaboard of Asia Minor * It seems reasonable conjectures for the poems themselves are in predominantly Ionic dialect. * Although Smyrna began competing for the honor * Chios began competing for the honor