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Homer

Type Figure Region Ancient Greece Time -750 Also known as Homer、Ὅμηρος、Homeros

Homer was an ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally regarded as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, active around the 8th century BCE.

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  1. -800–-700Ionia region · IoniaHomer is traditionally held to have composed and recited the Iliad and Odyssey orally in the Ionia region, shaping shared Greek memory through heroic narrative, hexameter meter, and a cosmology of divine intervention, becoming a core text of later literature and education.

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