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Bust of Homer, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, Farnese collection, Naples (photograph by NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bust of Homer, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, Farnese collection, Naples (photograph by NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Homer

8th century BC · Epic poet

The poet the Greeks named as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epics at the root of European literature. One singer or many, the poems were sung long before they were written down.

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Read Homer.

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The Iliad and the Odyssey, in Greek beside English, passage by passage.

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