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A Short Biography of Homer

Author Name:

Homer

Born As:

Homer

Other Names:

Tigranes

Born:

Died:





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Epic Greek Poet                          
Selected Works:

Batrachomyomachia
Cypria
Epigoni
Homeric Hymns
Iliad
Little Iliad
Nostoi
Odyssey
Phocais
Thebaid

Homeric Topics - 

Achaeans
Achilles
Aoidos
Ancient accounts of Homer
Aristarchus of Samothrace
Bibliomancy
Catalogue of Ships
Cyclic Poets
Dactylic hexameter
Deception of Zeus
Epic Cycle
Epic poetry
Epithets in Homer
Geography of the Odyssey
Greek mythology
Homeric Greek
Homeric nod
Homeric Question
Homeric scholarship
Homer's Ithaca
Hector
Historicity of the Iliad
Ithaca
Life of Homer - Pseudo-Herodotus
List of characters in the Iliad
Odysseus
Peisistratos - Athens
Rhapsode
Shield of Achilles
Sortes Homerica
Tabula Iliaca
Telemachy
Trojan Battle Order
Trojan War
Trojan War in art and literature
Troy
Troy VII
Venetus A Manuscript
Zenodotus of Ephesus.                          
                          
                          
Walter Leaf, 1852-1927, translated Iliad - published in two volumes  - 1886-1888.

For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created.

Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Leaf