Today only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name 'Homer'. In antiquity, a very large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod,

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Some ancient claims about Homer were established early and repeated often. They include that Homer was blind (taking as self-referential a passage describing the blind bard Demodocus ), that he was born in Chios, that he was the son of the river Melesand

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Ancient
The study of Homer is one of the oldest topics in scholarship, dating back to antiquity. Nonetheless, the aims of Homeric studies have changed over the course of the millennia. The earliest preserved comments on

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Scholars continue to debate questions such as whether the Trojan War actually took place – and if so when and where – and to what extent the society depicted by Homer is based on his own or one which was, even at the time of the poems' composition, known only

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The Homeric epics are written in an artificial literary language or 'Kunstsprache' only used in epic hexameterpoetry. Homeric Greek shows features of multiple regional Greek dialects

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The orally transmitted Homeric poems were put into written form at some point between the eighth and sixth centuries BC. Some scholars believe that they were dictated to a scribe by the

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• Achaeans (Homer)
• Aeneid
• Bibliomancy
• Catalogue of Ships

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