40 of the Most Influential People of All Time
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40 of the Most Influential People of All Time

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36. Homer

Roman bust of Homer from the second century AD. British Museum/ Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain.

We know very little about the historical figure of Homer except that he was probably a blind poet and wrote two of the most famous epics in history, The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Iliad dramatizes the Trojan War, something that we may have never even heard of otherwise. The Odyssey tells of the return of Odysseus, one of the heroes of the Trojan War, back to his homeland. The poems also say of the role that the gods and goddesses supposedly played in these events.

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