Modern scholars believe the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on oral legends, but the epics are often attributed to a storyteller named Homer. We have only a few clues about who Homer might have been. Herodotus was a Greek writer who lived in the fifth century before the Common Er
Modern scholars believe the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on oral legends, but the epics are often attributed to a storyteller named Homer. ... There are only a few clues about who Homer might have been. Herodotus was a Greek writer who lived in the fifth century before the Common Era