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The ancient Greeks has regarded Homer as the essence of Greek culture, Homeras a matter of national pride, Dante said Homer "poem", but later scholars to Homer a real person, and heplace of origin, years of life, the epic whether he made a series of problems have different views on the formation of Homer problems.
A sign of wisdom is to trial as early as the situation then choose to act Homer Chasing the shadow of the man, he is a shadow - Homer
The Greeks of the sixth and early fifth centuries BC understood by "Homer", generally, "the whole body of heroic tradition as embodied in hexameter verse".Thus, in addition to the Iliad and the Odyssey, there are "exceptional" epics which organize their respective themes on a "massive scale". Many other works were credited to Homer in antiquity, including the entire Epic Cycle. The genre included further poems on the Trojan War, such as the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Cypria, and the Epigoni, as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons. Other works, such as the corpus of Homeric Hymns, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War"), and the Margites were also attributed to him, but this is now believed to be unlikely. Two other poems, the Capture of Oechalia and the Phocais were also assigned Homeric authorship, but the question of the identities of the authors of these various texts is even more problematic than that of the authorship of the two major epics.
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According to legend, he is a bard(游吟诗人) of ancient Greece, was born in Asia Minor, the blind, the creation of the epic "Iliad" (伊利亚特)and "Odyssey"(奥德赛), both collectively, became the "chargeMa epic "(荷马史诗)
There is no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of Homer, so some people think he is a figure of legend was constructed. Homer, most scholars believe is the resort of the oral tradition（口头流传）of poetry over the centuries.
He has left many articles in the ancient Homer biography, but the contents of contradictions, difficult as a reference. The survival age of Homer is about the twelfth century BC, the seventh century BC, ancient handed down two lines of poetry about his native place, reference to the seven city-states, or that his home in this city of seven state being. According to content and linguistic characteristics of the epic, Homer may be the western Ionian Asia Minor, and finally died in the Aegean Sea, the Aeolian Island. Ancient writer refers to Homer from the Babylonian captivity to the Greek, the word "Homer" in the ancient Greek for "hostage" solution.