He is also one of the most influential authors in the widest sense, for the two epics provided the basis of Greek education and culture throughout the Classical age and formed the backbone of humane education down to the time of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the world’s literary artists. That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odyssey-so much may be said to be probable. Homer, (flourished 9th or 8th century bce?, Ionia? ), presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.Īlthough these two great epic poems of ancient Greece have always been attributed to the shadowy figure of Homer, little is known of him beyond the fact that his was the name attached in antiquity by the Greeks themselves to the poems. Some speculate that it was a term meaning wandering blind poet. This theory has led to various explanations for the use of the word Homer.

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