Who was Homer? No one can be sure. In the past, most scholars seemed to subscribe to the idea that a whole series of poets had created and embellished the two Greek masterpieces, "the Iliad" and "the Odyssey". Now it appears that for various reasons, most academics have once more come around to the idea that Homer actually existed and produced most of the two great poems of the Myceanean age. Whatever the truth, the world created in these poems is unforgettable in its beauty, simplicity and barbarism.







I wrote a poem about Homer.



HOMER

What is it in a simple tale of romance
That makes each man a fascinated child?
Is it by iron fate or merest chance,
That we like tales of violence hot and wild?
Why do I love of all legends the best
Great Homer’s saga of the warring West?

“Homer!” The very name rings like a bell
Down all the centuries of western art!
Great Ulysses was forced to visit Hell
And know his mother’s lost and broken heart!
It is the archetypes that fascinate
Us most (a gritty courage, Love and Hate!)