Homer

Homer is the blind ancient Greek poet who wrote the poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. Almost nothing is known about him. Some say he lived in a Greek-speaking city on the eastern side of the Aegean sea. Others say he lived on the island of Khios. Some say he never even existed. The events in his poems take place during and after the Trojan War. He may have based the war on a real war between ancient Greece and the city of Troy in 1200 B.C.E. Many scholars say he wrote the poems between 800 and 700 B.C.E. as his poems talk about social conditions from that time. We do not have the original versions of the poems because they were changed through may retellings. After Homer’s time, the poems became very famous. Greek children used the poems as textbooks in school and the Greek’s religion was formed around his portrayal of the gods and goddesses. Homer and his poems became well-known as you can see.