Homer

Homer is the name given to a Greek figure credited with composing the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey – monumental works that ancient Greeks viewed as cornerstones of their civilization. The identity, date, and very existence of an individual named Homer are no more clearly understood or agreed upon by modem scholars than they were by the ancients. Homeric poetry or Homeric epic is a product of lengthy oral tradition, and elements of the epics variously reflect periods from the Bronze Age to the Archaic period of ancient Greece-a span of several centuries between the 13th century and the eighth century BCE.