Who Is The Blind Bard In The Odyssey

Homer is allegedly a blind writer, who verbally dictated his poems. There is a blind bard that also appears in the Odyssey. Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey in 8th Century BCE, and they were changed a lot as they were passed down verbally. His poems were most famous especially because they survived the burning of the library of Alexandra. In the Odysseus which takes place after the events of the Iliad, Helen runs off with Paris a Trojan prince, Menelaus brother Agamemnon gathers allies and tries to go to Troy to get Helen back, but the war goes on for ten years, and then Agamemnon sees an concubine of Achilles and Achilles gets really angry and doesn’t want to fight anymore. Then things go bad for the Greeks until Patroclus Achilles best friend goes into battle for him, and then Hector slays and kills him. This forces Achilles to return to the war and which he kills many Trojan man and also slays Hector and drags his body behind his chariot. Achilles returns Hectors body over to Prime Hector’s father after he begged for his corpses.
The God’s finally intervened and Odysseus went home in disguise, killing several dozen suitors who drank his wine and annoying his wife and plotting to kill his son, The Goddess Athena intervenes and restores peace around this civil of violence which seems ongoing. Odysseus is smart and would do anything to survive. I think he’s pretty pitiful because he is over confident, clearly obvious because it took him 10 years to return home. He however is a hero because he is the favorite of the Goddess Athena, and he displays great