Little is known about the author of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". No records were kept, and even our knowledge of the major events of Greek history before 600 B.C. is sketchy at best. Most of the information about Homer is drawn from internal evidence in the two epics, a bit of archaeological evidence, and unreliable tradition--much of it based on the highly speculative 5th-century B.C. biography by Theocritus. No one is even sure whether the works attributed to Homer were written solely by him more... 

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