Homer greek author biography
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Homer
(800-701)
Who Was Homer?
The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC, possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor. He is famous for the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, which have had an enormous effect on Western culture, but very little is known about their alleged author.
The Mystery of Homer
Homer is a mystery. The Greek epic poet credited with the enduring epic tales of The Iliad and The Odyssey is an enigma insofar as actual facts of his life go. Some scholars believe him to be one man; others think these iconic stories were created by a group. A variation on the group idea stems from the fact that storytelling was an oral tradition and Homer compiled the stories, then recited them to memory.
Homer’s style, whoever he was, falls more in the category of minstrel poet or balladeer, as opposed to a cultivated poet who is the product of a fervent literary moment, such as a Virgil or a Shakespeare. The stories have re
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The Life and Work of Homer
Homer was the most important and earliest of the Greek and Roman writers. Greeks and Romans didn't count themselves educated unless they knew his poems. His influence was felt not only on literature but on ethics and morality via lessons from his masterpieces. He fryst vatten the first source to look for information on Greek myth and religion. Yet, despite his prominence, we have no firm evidence that he ever lived.
" Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the frakt all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another."
—Xenophanes (a Pre-Socratic philosopher)
The Life of the Blind Bard
Because Homer performed and sang he is called a bard. He is thought to have been blind, and so is known as the blind bard, just as Shakespeare, calling on the same tradition, fryst vatten known as the bard of Avon.
The name "Homer," which is an unusual one for the time, is thought to mean either "blind" or
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Homer
Little is known about the life of Homer, the author credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey who is arguably the greatest poet of the ancient world. Historians place his birth sometime around 750 BC and conjecture that he was born and resided in or near Chios. However, seven cities claimed to have been his birthplace. Due to the lack of information about Homer the person, many scholars hold the poems themselves as the best windows into his life. For instance, it fryst vatten from the description of the blind bard in The Odyssey that many historians have guessed that Homer was blind. The Odyssey’s depiction of the bard as a minstrel in the service of local kings also gives some insight into the life of the poet practicing his craft. What is undeniable is that the works of Homer proved to be the most influential not merely for the poets of ancient times but also for the later epic poets of Western literature.
There is much evidence to support the theory that The Ili