Homer

• Homer (c.850 BCE) was the Greatest Ancient Greek Epic Poet. All of the Ancient Classical World read and studied Homer.
• He wrote his works in Dactylic Hexameter.

Biography

• He lived either around 850 BCE according to Herodotus, or during the period of the Trojan War in the twelfth century BCE.
• Homer was the author of The Iliad, and its sequel, The Odyssey, written using Hexameter in Ionic Greek with other dialects.

Dactylic Hexameter

• Dactylic Hexameter was considered by the Ancient Greeks and Romans to be the foremost method of recounting classical Epic Poetry.
• In Dactylic Hexameter each foot contains three syllables, with six feet altogether, giving a total of eighteen syllables per line.

Works

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey