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Homer
Homer is the poet traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey, the oldest surviving works of Greek literature. The ancient Greeks treated him as a real person, but modern scholars debate whether he existed and how the epics, rooted in oral tradition, came to be written down.
Authorship, dates or origin are uncertain or disputed; read this background with care.
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“Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove.”
— Homer (Eumaeus the swineherd), Odyssey, Book XIV, tr. Samuel ButlerWatch on YouTube: TED-Ed: Reading Homer's Odyssey ↗TED-Ed introduces the Odyssey, where this welcome is given