0200l-HOMER is not known for sure to have been a real person, probably born 600 to 700 BC and Greek in origin and reported to be blind, born on the island of Chios or, elsewhere in Ionia, where various cities vied in claiming him, was a writer, poet, and singer (aoidos)
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Image is bust of Homer in the British Museum, London, England. Marble terminal bust of Homer. Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC. From Baiae, Italy. The so-called Hellenistic blind type can be paralleled with figures of the Pergamon Altar.
Credited writer of the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' poems, much of the work is said to have been oratory and on the spot creations. Homer was at one time credited with the entire Epic Cycle. The genre included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons. Other works, such as the corpus of Homeric Hymns, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia, The Frog-Mouse War, Βατραχομυομαχία, and the Margites were also attributed to him, but this is now believed to be unlikely. These works are universally praised for their poetic genius, and the entity writer initiated a period of Classical Antiquity, argued whether product of one man or of many by some.