I lived from -900--850.
I influenced poets William Cullen Bryant, Giosue Carducci, James Joyce, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans.
Birth and death dates are approximate.
The fact is that no one has any solid theory on what the answer to this question might be! There are, however, many historians, literary figures, and others who have stated beliefs and theories as to who Homer really was and where he lived.
We will only relate to you two stories that try to pinpoint the identity of this clandestine poet.
There is one school of thought, perhaps originally stated by one person and now believed by a small group of people, that the true identity of Homer lies within Nausicca, whom lives with her father King Alcinous and mother Queen Arete on the island of Scheria!
Another, and perhaps humoring hypothesis is that of a British scholar who suggested that if Homers name were spelled backwards, in Hebrew, it would be just another form of Solomon; thus the scholar attributed the poems to the Hebrew King!
The fact is that no one has any solid theory on what the answer to this question might be! There are, however, many historians, literary figures, and others who have stated beliefs and theories as to who Homer really was and where he lived.
We will only relate to you two stories that try to pinpoint the identity of this clandestine poet.
There is one school of thought, perhaps originally stated by one person and now believed by a small group of people, that the true identity of Homer lies within Nausicca, whom lives with her father King Alcinous and mother Queen Arete on the island of Scheria!
Another, and perhaps humoring hypothesis is that of a British scholar who suggested that if Homers name were spelled backwards, in Hebrew, it would be just another form of Solomon; thus the scholar attributed the poems to the Hebrew King!
Popular poetry
- Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought
countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send477 lines - But Minerva went to the fair city of Lacedaemon to tell Ulysses' son
that he was to return at once. She found him and Pisistratus433 lines - The fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it
would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as405 lines - After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there367 lines - Thus did they fight about the ship of Protesilaus. Then Patroclus
drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some723 lines - When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain,
the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream340 lines - Thence we went on to the Aeoli island where lives Aeolus son of
Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as452 lines - Then Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in
his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes427 lines - Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O son
of Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans over409 lines, 1 comment - So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus
within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately,380 lines
