Ayyukan Homero kasance kuma ana tuntubarsa, ana kwaikwayon shi, duk mawaƙan Girka, masana falsafa da zane-zane sun ambata, shi ne babban mawaƙin adabin gargajiya.
Tarihin rayuwarsa ya bayyana kewaye da asirai, saba wa juna, mai yiwuwa ya rayu tsakanin ƙarni na XNUMX da na XNUMX kafin haihuwar Yesu, kodayake wasu ma suna shakkar wanzuwar. Garuruwa bakwai sun yi jayayya game da haihuwarsa sune Colophon, Cumas, Pylos, Ithaca, Argos, Athens, Smyrna. Matsalolin da Homer ya fara gabatarwa sun fito ne daga karni na sha bakwai BC, kuma sun zama na gargajiya, an kuma ce manyan ayyukansa guda biyu da Iliad da Odyssey, kayayyaki ne na tattara wakokin da suka gabata, wadanda za su yi bayanin sabani da aka samu a cikinsu. Wasu kuma suna danganta shi kasancewarsa mai kirkira ko mawaƙa mai maimaitawa, wanda ya tsara asusun banki wanda ke yawo ko'ina cikin Girka, tsawon ƙarni da yawa. A cikin wakokin zaka ga hannun wani mawaki daya wanda ke bada hadin kai ga wakokin. Iliyasu tana da baiti 15.690, kuma Odyssey kusan 12.000. Makafin an sadaukar dasu ne don kasuwancin aedo, yana iya kasancewa dan asalin Smyrna ne, wurin da ake magana da yaren Aeolian da Ionic, wanda zai bayyana yaren Homero.
Wani almara ya ce sunansa zai zama Melesigenes, saboda an haife shi ne a bukukuwan Meles don girmama Kogin Meles a Smyrna, ɗan Crete, wanda zai rayu a ƙarni na XNUMX. BC. An yi imanin cewa ya yi tafiya wurare daban-daban yana waƙa ayoyinsa, duka a wajen liyafa a liyafa, kasancewar su mashahurai kuma masu kauna, a daya daga cikin wadannan tafiye-tafiyen da wani ciwon ido ya kai masa hari wanda ya ba shi makanta, daga nan ne aka kira shi Homero wanda baya gani.
A gidan abokinsa Creófilo, ya kasance lokacin da ya ga mutuwa na gabatowarsa, ya rubuta nasa rubutun nasa “A nan duniya ta rufe mutumin da aka tsarkake, masu tunanin jarumai, allahntaka Homero".