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THE ILIAD The Greeks believed that the Iliadand the Odyssey were composed by a single poet whom they named Homer. Nothing is known of his life. While seven Greek cities claim the honorof being his birthplace, ancient tradition places him in Ionia, located in the eastern Aegean. His birth­ date is undocumented as well, though most modern ...

he Iliad, a major founding work of European literature, is usually dated to around the 8th century BC, and attributed to Homer. It is an epic poem, written in Ancient Greek but assumed to be derived from earlier oral sources, and tells much of the story of the legendary Trojan War between mainland Greece and the city of Troy