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A-Z: General definitions: Homer
Definition
(9th or 8th century BCE). Greek poet to whom the highly-influential, epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were attributed. (See Odysseus).
A major poem or fiction depicting events of significance in the history of a civilisation.
King of Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea, and famous for his cunning; the story of his ten year journey home after the Trojan War is the subject of Homer's Odyssey. (Roman name Ulysses.)
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