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How Is Homer A Real Person

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Much about Homer's life is not known for sure. Nearly everything known about Homer comes from the epic poems that he wrote. Scholars debate whether or not Homer was a real person. Nonetheless he, or the great number of anonymous writers and orators from that time, is most well known for the two epic poems: "The Iliad," and "The Odyssey." Of which recount the story of the Trojan war, and the journey of Odysseus going back home, his journey, and mythical encounters. For the purposes of this post, I will assume that Homer was a real person. Estimates place Homer somewhere between 850 BCE and 1270 BCE, which is a rather large time gap. Athens is the most likely place that Homer was from, but there is debate on that subject as well. Homer was a
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