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Like much of Homer's life, including whether he existed at all, there is a mystery surrounding his blindness. It is assumed he was blind based on the character in The Odyssey called Demodokos. Many scholars believe attributing blindness to Homer began with this tale.
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Is Homer is greek mythology?
Homer was a blind poet who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad. Both of these books had bits and pieces of Greek mythology in them.
Where did the story of Odysseus come from?
Tradition holds that the blind poet Homer composed The Odyssey. He based the epic on a stories and characters that existed in Greek myths prior to Homer's own time.
Why is Homer's identity unclear?
because he was blind and nobody has/ had seen hin
When was the first Greek story told?
Probably by the blind poet known as "Homer". It was in the 1200bc's and it was about Oddyseus. The story took place during the Trojan War. The names of the stories were the "Iliad" and the "Oddysey"
What is Homer in ancient Greece?
Little is known about Homer - no one is certain of the time he was alive, etc, etc.But he was a poet, who wrote The Odyssey and Iliad- two of the most influential poems in the world, which is agreed upon by almost every literary scholar in the world.
