Homer Coloring Page
Homer, the ancient Greek poet
(c. 8th century BC)
"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
Homer gave us two of the oldest stories in the Western world. The Iliad is about a few angry weeks near the end of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey follows Odysseus on his long, monster-filled trip home. The wooden horse of Troy is told in the Odyssey, not the Iliad.
The poems were sung out loud long before anyone wrote them down, and tradition says Homer was blind. Scholars still argue about whether he was one poet or the name for a whole tradition of storytellers.
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