Homer

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Homer The ancient Greek poet who wrote “The Iliad and the Odyssey”. Odysseus had a lot of trouble getting home, because the gods were angry at him and he did not respect their power. First he sailed from Troy with many ships and a lot of gold and slaves and stuff he had taken from Troy, and many men from Ithaca who had followed him to war. To the classical Greeks, Homer's epics played very much the same role that theBible plays for a lot of people today. People memorized big chunks of Homer's writings in school, and they repeated bits of it in order to convince other people to do something or think something.