Jobs Homer were and are consulted, imitated, cited by all Greek poets, philosophers and artists, he is the greatest poet of classical literature.
His biography appears surrounded by mysteries, contradictions, he may have lived between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries BC, although some even doubt its existence. Seven cities dispute his birth they are Colophon, Cumas, Pylos, Ithaca, Argos, Athens, Smyrna. The problems that Homer begins to pose were from the seventeenth century BC, and constituted a classic, it has also been said that his two great works the Iliad and the Odyssey, they were products of a compilation of previous poems, that would explain the contradictions found in them. Others attribute to him having been a creator or recast poet, who shaped the oral accounts that circulated throughout Greece, for several centuries. In the poems you can see the hand of a single poet who gives unity to the poems. The Iliad it has 15.690 verses, and the Odyssey almost 12.000. The blind were dedicated to the trade of aedo, it may be a native of Smyrna, a place where the Aeolian and Ionic dialectics are spoken, which would explain the language of Homer.
A legend says that his name would be Melesigenes, because he was born in the Meles festivals in honor of the Meles River in Smyrna, son of Crete, who would have lived in the XNUMXth century BC. It is believed that he traveled different places singing his verses, both at parties as banquets, being very popular and loved, in one of those trips he was attacked by an ophthalmia that left him blind, from there he was called Homer the one who does not see.
At the house of his friend Creófilo, he was when he saw that death was approaching him, he wrote his own epitaph “Here the earth covers the consecrated man, pondering heroes, the divine Homer".