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−	The ancient Greeks believed that the two [[epic]] poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, '''Homer''' - in Greek ''Homeros'' (Ὅμηρος); the English pronunciation is 'HOME-er', {{IPA]] 'həʊmə}}. (The [[adjective]] meaning 'to do with Homer' is '''homeric''', 'home-ER-ic', {{IPA\|həʊ'mɛrɪk}}.) It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.	+	The ancient Greeks believed that the two [[epic]] poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, '''Homer''' - in Greek ''Homeros'' (Ὅμηρος); the English pronunciation is 'HOME-er', {{IPA\|'həʊmə}}. (The [[adjective]] meaning 'to do with Homer' is '''homeric''', 'home-ER-ic', {{IPA\|həʊ'mɛrɪk}}.) It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.

	Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.		Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.

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−	The ancient Greeks believed that the two [[epic]] poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, '''Homer''' - in Greek ''Homeros'' (~~'ÎŒÎ¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï‚~~); the English pronunciation is 'HOME-er', [[IPA]] ~~ËˆhÉ™ÊŠmÉ™r~~. (The [[adjective]] meaning 'to do with Homer' is '''homeric''', 'home-ER-ic', {{IPA\|~~hÉ™ÊŠm ËˆÉ›r Éªk~~}}.) It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.	+	The ancient Greeks believed that the two [[epic]] poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, '''Homer''' - in Greek ''Homeros'' (Ὅμηρος); the English pronunciation is 'HOME-er', {{IPA]] 'həʊmə}}. (The [[adjective]] meaning 'to do with Homer' is '''homeric''', 'home-ER-ic', {{IPA\|həʊ'mɛrɪk}}.) It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.

	Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.		Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.

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-The ancient Greeks believed that the two epic poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, Homer - in Greek ''Homeros'' ('ÎŒÎ¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï‚); the English pronunciation is [[IPA]] hÉ™ÊŠmÉ™r. It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.
+The ancient Greeks believed that the two [[epic]] poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, '''Homer''' - in Greek ''Homeros'' ('ÎŒÎ¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï‚); the English pronunciation is 'HOME-er', [[IPA]] ËˆhÉ™ÊŠmÉ™r. (The [[adjective]] meaning 'to do with Homer' is '''homeric''', 'home-ER-ic', {{IPA|hÉ™ÊŠm ËˆÉ›r Éªk}}.) It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.
 Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.
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 For some help with the pronunciation of Greek names see [[Pronunciation of Greek Proper Names]].
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 Whether or not the work of a single poet, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' played a fundamental part in Greek education. All educated Greeks of the classical period would be very familiar with their contents and would know large portions of them by heart, rather in the way that in earlier centuries English men and women were familiar with the contents of the [[Bible]] and able to quote passages from memory.
-The influence of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' has been immense - not only on the rest of [[Greek literature]] (and particularly on [[Greek tragedy]]) but on Western European literature generally. The ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' were the model for the ''Aeneid'', the great epic poem of the Roman poet Vergil (70-19 CE). Vergil's ''Aeneid'' was in turn taken as his model by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 CE) for ''The Divine Comedy'' (''La divina commedia'') and was an influence on the English poet John Milton (1608-1674 CE) when he wrote ''Paradise Lost''. The opening lines both of Vergil's ''Aeneid'' and of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' echo the opening lines of the ''Iliad''.
+The influence of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' has been immense - not only on the rest of [[Greek literature]] (and particularly on [[Greek tragedy]]) but on Western European literature generally. The ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' were the model for the ''Aeneid'', the great epic poem of the Roman poet Vergil (70-19 CE). Vergil's ''Aeneid'' was in turn taken as a model by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 CE) for ''The Divine Comedy'' (''La divina commedia'') and was an influence on the English poet John Milton (1608-1674 CE) when he wrote ''Paradise Lost''. The opening lines both of Vergil's ''Aeneid'' and of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' echo the opening lines of the ''Iliad''.
 See further [[Iliad and Odyssey]].

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−	The ancient Greeks believed that the two epic poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, Homer - in Greek ''Homeros'' ('ÎŒÎ¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï‚); the English pronunciation is [[IPA]] hÉ™ÊŠmÉ™r. ~~Homer~~ was said ~~to have been~~ a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but ~~there~~ was ~~no further information~~ about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.	+	The ancient Greeks believed that the two epic poems, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', were the work of a single poet, Homer - in Greek ''Homeros'' ('ÎŒÎ¼Î·ÏÎ¿Ï‚); the English pronunciation is [[IPA]] hÉ™ÊŠmÉ™r. It was said that Homer was a native of the Aegean island of Chios, but beyond that nothing was known about the details of his life, and there was disagreement about when he lived.

	Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.		Nowadays scholars are sceptical of Homer's existence. They do not think that either the ''Iliad'' or the ''Odyssey'' was composed by one person, let alone that one and the same person composed both poems. Certainly each of the poems, in the form in which we have it, has a unity and may have been put together by a single poet, but it is probable that in each case the poet, working in an oral tradition, drew on and shaped poems composed by (many) others and widely known in the tradition.

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 Whether or not the work of a single poet, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' played a fundamental part in Greek education. All educated Greeks of the classical period would be very familiar with their contents and would know large portions of them by heart, rather in the way that in earlier centuries English men and women were familiar with the contents of the [[Bible]] and able to quote passages from memory.
-The influence of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey''[[ has been immense - not only on the rest of Greek literature]] (and particularly on [[Greek tragedy]]) but on Western European literature generally. The ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' were the model for the ''Aeneid##, the great epic poem of the Roman poet Vergil (70-19 CE). Vergil's ''Aeneid'' was in turn taken as his model by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 CE) for ''''The Divine Comedy (''La divina commedia'') and was an influence on the English poet John Milton (1608-1674 CE) when he wrote ''Paradise Lost''. The opening lines both of Vergil's ''Aeneid'' and of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' echo the opening lines of the ''Iliad''.
+The influence of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' has been immense - not only on the rest of Greek literature]] (and particularly on [[Greek tragedy]]) but on Western European literature generally. The ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'' were the model for the ''Aeneid'', the great epic poem of the Roman poet Vergil (70-19 CE). Vergil's ''Aeneid'' was in turn taken as his model by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 CE) for ''The Divine Comedy'' (''La divina commedia'') and was an influence on the English poet John Milton (1608-1674 CE) when he wrote ''Paradise Lost''. The opening lines both of Vergil's ''Aeneid'' and of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' echo the opening lines of the ''Iliad''.
 See further [[Iliad and Odyssey]].
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