Homer
Reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey · Writers · Lived 900 BC to 800 BC · aged 100
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Something wrong?Two poems - the Iliad and the Odyssey - have shaped Western literature for nearly three millennia, and they're attributed to a poet about whom almost nothing is certain. Homer's authorship, life, even his existence remain contested, yet the epics carry his name into every generation.
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Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Part of an eleventh-century manuscript, "the Townley Homer". The writings on the top and right side are scholia.
Page from the first printed edition (editio princeps) of collected works by Homer edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Florence, 1489, Bibliothèque Nationale de France![Among the four surviving statues of Penelope, this is the oldest dating back to the 5th century BC, crafted 300 years after Homer composed the Odyssey. Discovered in Persepolis and housed at the National Museum of Iran, the other three are kept at the Vatican Museum and Capitoline Museum in Rome.[42][43][44]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Achamanid-Woman-Statue-Persia-Persepolis.jpg/1280px-Achamanid-Woman-Statue-Persia-Persepolis.jpg)
Among the four surviving statues of Penelope, this is the oldest dating back to the 5th century BC, crafted 300 years after Homer composed the Odyssey. Discovered in Persepolis and housed at the National Museum of Iran, the other three are kept at the Vatican Museum and Capitoline Museum in Rome.[42][43][44]
Greece according to the Iliad
Detail of The Parnassus (painted 1509-1510) by Raphael, depicting Homer wearing a crown of laurels atop Mount Parnassus, with Dante Alighieri on his right, in red, and Virgil on his left, in green.
A Reading from Homer (1885) by Lawrence Alma-TademaIn their own words 1
, I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.
About this person
Homer is thought to have composed his works around the late eighth or early seventh century BC, though scholars debate whether one person wrote both poems or if they came from separate hands. The Iliad follows a quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles in the final year of the Trojan War; the Odyssey tracks Odysseus's ten-year struggle home after Troy's fall, navigating divine punishment and his own endurance. Written in Homeric Greek - a literary blend of Ionic and Aeolic dialects - the epics were likely transmitted orally before being set down. Ancient Greece treated them as foundational: Plato credited Homer with educating an entire civilization, and Dante later crowned him sovereign of all poets. Accounts from antiquity described him as a blind bard from Ionia, but modern scholarship considers those stories legend.
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