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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus, Hesiod, Antipater of Sidon, Arion, Epimenides, Alexander Aetolus, Agathon, Aratus, Hipponax, Theocritus, Phemonoe, Theognis of Megara, Agathias, Mimnermus, Antimachus, Bion of Smyrna, Phocylides, Tyrtaeus, Apollonius of Rhodes, List of Ancient Greek poets, Epicharmus of Kos, Timon of Phlius, Herodas, Lycophron, Babrius, Cercidas, Menippus, Apollodorus, Meleager of Gadara, Oppian, Adaeus, Moschus, Aristeas, Archestratus, Alexander Lychnus, Cleobulus, Theodectes, Erinna, Callinus, Onomacritus, Sotades, Olen, Hermippus, Alexandrian Pleiad, Cleobuline, Simmias of Rhodes, Semonides of Amorgos, Agis of Argos, Aulus Licinius Archias, Chaeremon, Elephantis, Philemon, Plato, Xenocles, Ariphron, Sositheus, Polyeidos, Choerilus of Iasus, Dionysius Chalcus, Hermesianax, Antigenidas, Creophylus of Samos, Menecrates of Ephesus, Phanocles, Marcellus of Side, Cercops, Chrysogonus of Athens, Naumachius, Sosicles, Xenokleides, Antiphanes of Macedon, Automedon, Theogonis, Chersios of Orchomenus. Excerpt: In the Western classical tradition Homer (English pronunciation: Ancient Greek: , Hom ros), is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. When he lived is controversial. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC. For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created. The consensus is that "the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th century BC, the Iliad ...
