HomerHomer is a legendary ancient Greek poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable bioraphical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral storytelling and a well-developed formulaic system of poetic composition. It has been suggested that Homer is not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name. Read More Read Less