Homer

(hõ'mür,) the most celebrated among poets, was B. it is supposed in Scio, and lived about 850 years before the Christian æra. Aristotle, among others, has regarded him as having flourished during the epoch of the Ionian exodus, that is to say, about 140 years subsequent to the Trojan war. Both the place and time of his birth are, however, involved in obscurity, and even his individuality has been contested by many. To him, however, is commonly attributed the authorship of the sublime epics known as the Iliad and the Ody ey poems which are masterpieces of majestic genius. The last-named work is, neverthele , considered by some competent critics to have been the production of several pens rather than that of one single individual. The questions involved in the authorship of what have been called the " Homeric Poems," form in themselves a distinct and widely-elaborated field of literary research and disquisition. Ho'mer, in New York, a village of Cortland co.; pop. 2,008. Home'-sickne . [Fr. maladie du pays.] Same as NOSTALGIA, q. v. [s. 459]