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1. Homer is considered the greatest literary mystery because some people believe that the Illiad and the Odyssey were written by groups of people rather than one specific person. His life may remain a mystery but his work is still relevant and famous today.
2. Some people believe that Homer is blind because they base him on a character in the Odyssey, Demodokos, who was blind.

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1. Homer was the author of  the two very famous epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
2. People are not exactly sure of Homer's death, but it ranges between 750 BC and 1200 BC.
3. About seven cities claim him as a native, but no one knows exactly where he was born.

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1. Homer was credited to write the epic poems such as the Iliad and The Odyssey.
2. His two works were archetypal road maps in the mythological world.
3. Homer was thought to be blind due to a character in the odyssey.

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1. Homer made his writings more interesting with the use of similes and metaphors.
2. Due to a blind character in the Odyssey, Demodokos, Homer was though to be blind, too.
3. The exact location of Homer's birth cannot be pinpointed.

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- They believed Homer was blind because he character in The Odyssesy was a blind poet called Demodokos.
- He lived before the chronological dating system took place.
- His two epic poems have became archetypal road maps in world mythology.

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1. No body knows where Homer was born, although scholars believe he was born off the coast of Asia.
2. Homer had a great role in shaping the Illiad and Odyssey.
3. This event occurred during the Renaissance culture of Italy.

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1) He was questioned to have existed at all
2) His birthplace is unknown
3) 7 cities claim Homer as their native son

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1. Homer is the presumed author of Iliad and the Odyssey.
2.His two poems were a huge cultural influence on Hellenic unity .
3. The dialect that the Iliad and the Odyssey were written in is considered Asiatic Greek.

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1. For the Greeks, Homer was a godfather of their national culture, chronicling its mythology and collective memory in rich rhythmic tales.
2. Homer's real life may remain a mystery, but the very real impact of his works continues to illuminate our world today.
3. Other works have been attributed to Homer over the centuries, most notably the Homeric Hymns, but in the end only the two epic works remain enduringly his.

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1. It is debated if Homer is one person or a group of people.
2. He was born before the calendar.
3. Homer really influenced the rest of story telling.

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Homers birthday ranges from 750 BC all the way back to 1200 BC
His location of birth is cannot be determined
He created 2 epic poems

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It is unknown if Homer was even a real person and if he was, was he one man or a group of many. Homer was supposedly blind. Homer is really only known for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Homer is known as one of the most influential authors of his time, having written the poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Some believe him to be one man, but others believe his work to be created by a group of people.
The date and and place of his birth are unknown because there isn't any clear information about him. He is thought to be born anywhere from 750 BC to 1200 BC.

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1. Homer is credited for being the first to write the epics of Iliad and the Odyssey.
2.Homers birth place can not be pinpointed
3.Homers epics have become archetypal road maps

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- There are 7 cities that claim to be the home town of Homer.
- He is thought to be blind based off one of the characters in The Odyssey.
- His two epic poems have become the road maps for Mythology.
- People feel that the two stories were written centuries apart.

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~To this day, historians argue over whether Homer was one person, a group of people, or indeed whether he existed at all.
~Since he was born before the creation of the calendar, Homer's date of birth is unknown, as is his place of birth.
~Everything that is known about Homer is derived from his works. For example, he is thought to have been blind because of a character in The Odyssey, a blind minstrel names Demodokos.

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Homer was known for not only having good poetic quality, but also took the time to make his works long and complex, allowing modern day poets to have a good poem to decipher and gain knowledge and inspiration.
Many People question if Homer was a real person, partly because his date and place of birth are unknown. There are theories of a group of people playing as one, creating stories under a pseudonym.
He is known famously for his epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey

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Homer's works are designated as epic rather than lyric poetry. But all of this speculation about who he was led people to contemplate if he even really existed. Part of the problem was that Homer lived before chronological dating system was in place. So, nobody knows exactly the date he was born.

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-Homer was a great Greek storyteller (supposedly) who created great works like the Odyssey and the Iliad .
-His date of birth was unknown because he was born before the calendar.
-Everything we know about Homer, we know from the stories that he told..

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1. The exact location of Homer's birth cannot be pinpointed.
2. Homer was thought to have been blind.
3. His stories provide important insight into early human society

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Homer's birthdate and place are unknown.

It is unknown if Homer actually existed.

It is believed that Homer is blind.

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+There are many questions on who exactly was "Homer", mainly if it was one person or a group. I believe Homer was one person even though there are completely different styles in Homer's writing.
+There is also the "Homeric Questions" which is a question if Homer even existed in the first place. We can never know if he truly existed because we weren't there. We just have to go off stories that have been passed down for several generations and they could change each generation and we would never know. The only was to be 100% sure about any of this is to have a time machine.
+ Homer's exact birth date is unknown and this is because he was born before the calendar was created, i find this incredibly interesting because all these years later we still talk about his stories today.

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1. Homer’s style, whoever he was, falls more in the category of minstrel poet or balladeer. (Such as Shakespeare)
2. For the Greeks, Homer was a godfather of their national culture, chronicling its mythology and collective memory in rich rhythmic tales that have permeated the collective imagination.
3.The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC, possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor.

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~ Many people have questioned weather or not if Homer is alive. So this theory/ question is now know as the Homeric Question
~ they believed Homer was born around the range of 750BC to 1200BC but this information was gathered on the theory of the dearth of real information around him.
~ He was believe to be blind poet/ minstrel called Demodokos.

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People do not know where he was born.
He was born before a calendar  was created.
Homer is thought to have been blind.

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-There was very little knowledge about Homer's life
-Homer compiled the stories, the recited them to memory
-Homer was born before the calendar was made so no one knows when he was born

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Homer's existence is questioned because there is no way to truly figure out where he lived or when he was born.
He is the alleged author of the Odyssey  and the Iliad, which were two very influential pieces of literature.
Homer's style is different than Shakespeare and Virgil. His writing is more lyrical, but it's not seen as lyric poetry

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Homer’s style, whoever he was, falls more in the category of minstrel poet or balladeer, as opposed to a cultivated poet who is the product of a fervent literary moment, such as a Virgil or a Shakespeare. The stories have repetitive elements, almost like a chorus or refrain, which suggests a musical element.

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-Some people think Homer is one man but there are others who think its a group who created all the stories.
-Homer's poems were considered epic even though they were written with repetitive lines like there was a chorus of the poem.
-No one really knows if Homer is real and if he was they aren't exactly sure when he was alive and around.

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Homer was born somewhere near Asia Minor--totally new information.

Homer lived before the calendar was ever really a thing.

We have all this information about Homer and his birth and such, yet some people aren't even sure he ever existed.

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Homer's poems have become archetypal road maps in world mythology.
He told his stories orally
His most popular works are The Odyssy and The Iliad.

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Some scholars think Homer to be one man while others think these stories were created by a group of people.
some people wonder if he existed at all.
His statues had thick curly hair and beard and sightless eyes.

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His birth date ranges from 750 BC to 1200 BC.
Homer was believed to be blind.
Most people believe that homer was just one man but there are speculations that the stories were made by a group.

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50% of his work was in the form of speeches

Homer's existence is questionable. There is no biographical information that proves that he was ever even alive.

"Homer" sounds like the Greek word for hostage and/or blind, which may be why people think of him as an ex slave who is blind.

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The exact date and place of Homer's birth is unknown. We only have a vague description of when and where.

Homer is believed to have been blind.

Homer technically cannot be the only author of The Iliad and The odyssey based on the facts within the work.

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Homer is thought to have been blind, based solely on a character in The Odyssey

Controversy about Homer's authorship springs from the differing styles of the two long narrative poems, indicating The Odyssey and  Iliad were composed a century apart.

The repetitive elements, almost like a chorus or refrain, which suggests a musical element.

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+ Many scholars believe he is not the only person who wrote these stories rather a group of people

+ unlike other poets such as a Virgil or a Shakespeare Homer's works lacked fervent literary moments instead they have repetitive elements, such as a chorus and a refrain  which suggests a musical element.

+ No one can find out any information about Homer's birth including date and place.

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Approximately 50 percent of all of Homer's work was in the form of speeches.

The epic poems were first set down in writing in about 700 B.C., although people supposedly say that they were written long before that, being passed from generation to generation as performances.

Besides the date of birth, people were uncertain about Homer’s place of birth, people estimate that Homer must be from a town located in Mediterranean regions.

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1. nobody knows the exact date of his birth.
2. He is famous the Iliad and odyssey poetry
3. He lived before chronological dating system

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The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC.
People question whether he actually existed or not.
Homer was thought to have been blind, based on the chracter

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1. He was supposedly a native of Ionia.
2. He also didn't like much past the Trojan War.
3. MIGHT HAVE EXISTED (MIGHT)

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His stories suggest musical elements.

No one knows exactly where he was born, but 7 cities claim him as a native.

Some believe he was the educator of all of Greece.

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two of his poems are mapped in Greek mythology. many of the statues people made of him were with thick curly hair. Even though it cant be determined exactly where he's from, evidence has proven he is from the coast of Asia.

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-The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC, possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor.
-He is famous for the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey , which have had an enormous effect on Western culture, but very little is known about their alleged author.
-Homer is thought to have been blind, based solely on a character in The Odyssey , a blind poet/minstrel called Demodokos.

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Whether or not Homer actually existed or not is a great literary mystery.
His work is paralleled in much of pop culture.
He uses a lot of similes and metaphors.

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The first fact I found interesting was that he was born before there was a chronological dating system.
The second fact that i found interesting was that all information about his life was derived from his poems.  I don't really think that's very reliable.
The third and final fact that I found interesting was that the Olympics marked an epoch.

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1. Homer was born in between 8th-9th century B.C., which was before a chronological dating system.
2. A lot of people don't think Homer wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey. There are many conspiracies about this because there is a difference in writing styles and language.
3. Homer wrote short poems to celebrate the Gods, these were called Homeric Hymns.

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1. Homer, (flourished 9th or 8th century [now in Turkey]) presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
2.With or without Homer, according to Murray, there is little likelihood that the Iliad and Odyssey of the early sources are the ones we know. Based on the fact that the Iliad was recited at the Panathenaic Games, which started in 566 BCE, Gregory Nagy selects a date of the 6th century for the fixation of the epics, as opposed to Murray’s 150 BCE.
3.Homer cannot be presented as a single author of a set of works as they are today describing events of history that are more or less real, apart from the obvious mythology.

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-The poems had a big impact on western standards and ideas
-the exact location of Homer’s birth cannot be pinpointed
-there is some doubt over whether the Iliad and theOdyssey were even composed by the same main author

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Homer was a famous poet who made major historical impacts through society. He wrote two epic poems called the iliad, and the odyssey. He was alive in 9th or 8th century bce, ionia [now in Turkey]

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Homer made major contributions to western culture by writing "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" which were epic poems that influence culture up into the 21st century despite being written around 800 BCE.
One of the things that makes Homer look different from the rest of people in his time was that he was blind.
The Iliad was written about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey was written about Odysseus who is attempting to get home after a ten year war.

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He wrote two famous poems.
People think he could be either one man or a group.
Whether he actually existed at all or not is the greatest literary mystery.

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The first interesting fact that I noticed is that Homer was probably blind based on the characters in his stories. I also learned that authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and James Joyce were influenced by Homer's stories. Finally, his epic poems influenced the arts and culture of ancient Greece greatly.

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-Common belief is that Homer is just one man, but there is a large chance all his stories were made by a group.

-No one knows when he was born, people can only estimate or guess the time period.

-No one knows where he was exactly born either.

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- Homer was one of the most influential authors in the widest sense, for the two epics provided the basis of Greek education and culture
- The dialect that The Iliad and The Odyssey are written in is considered Asiatic Greek, specifically Ionic
- Homer's epic poems provide an important insight into early human society, and illustrate, in some aspects, how little has changed

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1. 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.
2. Homer is the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
3.Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds.

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- the Homeric epics had a profound impact on the Renaissance culture of Italy
-Greeks regarded the great epics as something more than works of literature; they knew much of them by heart, and they valued them not only as a symbol of Hellenic unity and heroism but also as an ancient source of moral and even practical instruction.
- the Homeric tradition was an oral one

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- The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC
-  credited with being the first to write down the epic stories of The Iliad and The Odyssey
- He is also one of the most influential authors in the widest sense, for the two epics provided the basis of Greek education

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-Homer was born between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C. He is famous for the poems "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey" which has a really big effect on western culture.
-Son of Telemachus and Epikaste.
-Homer's poems were written during the era of the Trojian War.

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-Homer was the author of the first known literature of Europe.
-Ancient Greeks described him as "first teacher"/ "teacher of learning."
-Homer's two epic poems have become archetypal road maps in world mythology. The stories provide an important insight into early human society.

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- Believed to have died on the island Ios, the year is unknown, just as his exact date of birth is unknown.
-In Homer's time, his poetry would have been spoken aloud as opposed to being written down. It was only later that they would have been written down.
-Homer’s existence is disputed. Was there really a man named Homer? No actual biographical information  had been recorded. No one really knows if he existed..

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-Homer was born between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C. He is famous for the poems "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey" which has a really big effect on western culture.
-Son of Telemachus and Epikaste.
-Homer's poems were written during the era of the Trojian War.