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Homer

Homer [Na].
Greek poet, believed to have been blind, writing in the mid 1st millennium bc, who is credited with two important works with direct archaeological relevance because of their subject matter: The Iliad relates the events of 51 days in the last year of the siege of Troy by the Greeks; and The Odyssey describes the wanderings of Ulysses on his way back from the Trojan War and the vengeance he exacted on the suitors of his wife Penelope. The first printed editions of Homer's works appeared in AD 1488.

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