Homer biography powerpoint assignments

Full Name: Homer
Birth Date: c.

Homer was a blind poet who lived between BC and BC and is best known for writing down two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Homer was an ancient Greek poet believed to have lived between the 12th and 8th centuries BC. He is most famous for authoring the epic poems The Iliad and The.

Homer was an ancient Greek poet believed to have lived around BC who is credited with writing the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey.

This is a PowerPoint presentation of 19 slides that includes information on the background of Odysseus, including his part in the Iliad.

A Greek poet Iliad, the story of the siege of Troy The Odyssey, the tale of Ulysses' wanderings Probably born in a Greek colony in Asia.

800 BCE
Death Date: c. 701 BCE
Birthplace: Greece
Occupation: Poet
Religion: Polytheism
Zodiac sign: Cancer

Homer is the name given to the man credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey, great Greek poems that are the earliest surviving example of European literature.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, including whether he truly existed, but the ancient Greeks in the centuries that followed the poems’ composition considered him a distinct individual and depicted him as a sculptor.

Early Life:

Homer was born on the coast of Asia Minor sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC.

It is not known whether he was literate or composed the poems orally while others wrote them down. Homer’s poems The Iliad and The Odyssey had a vast effect on western culture. Although, it is slightly known that the Iliad is not entirely the original composition.

Writing Technique:

Many of scholars are convinced that the two epic poems were wri