HOMER

the greatest of epic poets. Nothing definite is known concerning Homer; he was probably born neat Smyrna, in Asia Minor, though at least seven towns are given as his birth-place. and the date of his birth, as given by various authorities, varies from 1100 B.0. to 700 B.C. Homer was probably a wandering minstrel, and his great works are the “* Iliad” and ‘* Ody ey,” though both these works probably contain portion: written by other pocts, [s. 173]