Essay About Ancient Times Of The Greeks And First Of His Time

Life of Homer
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Homer
Homer, a greek poet and one of the first of his time wrote, “The Odyssey and
The Iliad.” There is much not known about this man but the few pieces of
information written about him. He is believed to lived between 1100 through 800
B.C. seeing how The Iliad revolves around the Trojan War. Many historians
believe him to be the first of man to write literature of the western world. The only
resources on him are from the ancient times of the Greeks. The Greeks looked
at him as the greatest poet, and their first as well. Some people believe their
were poets before him but evidence on them were destroyed or never written
down. There are two places said to be the place of his home. One is the island
Chios and the other was Smyrna, present day Izmir.
All ancient and traditional sources say he was blind and that Homer may
have been used as a term for a common blind man. Many scholars believe his
work is the most evidence about him and what he was like. For instance the
way the blind man is described in The Odyssey gives indication of him being
blind. As before some believe there never was a homer just bits of information
pasted down from bard to bard remaking the story each time. But the majority
of the people believe the was a great poet named Homer and an original
artist of his time using previous ways of telling a story to his times current way
of expressing a story. It is possible that he rewrote his stories over and over
again and never finished a final