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Birth Name: Ὅμηρος

Country of origin: Greece

Currently Residing In: Turkey

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Authors in the Dictionary (26 items)
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Published 14 years, 11 months ago

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Brilliant Authors (33 items)
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Published 13 years, 7 months ago

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Published 8 years, 9 months ago

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Top 50 Authors of All Time (50 items)
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Published 13 years, 7 months ago

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Letters to dead authors (62 items)
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Published 12 years, 3 months ago

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Homer Videos

Homer: The Iliad

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Great Books: HOMER'S ODYSSEY

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Christopher Hitchens on Literature: Homer's Odyssey (2000)

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Description: Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon. Whether and when he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BCE. Pseudo-Herodotus estimates that he was born 622 years before Xerxes I placed a pontoon bridge over the Hellespont in 480 BCE, which would place him at 1102 BCE, 168 years after the fall of Troy in 1270 BCE. These two end points are 252 years apa ... (more)

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