Ancient Greece


here is one of the paragraphs from our group essay about homer:

The question of the existence of homer, the great writers of ancient Greece, is formally known as the Homeric question. This great question is still being debated by many scholars still to this day. Some scholars think that Homer is a fictional person that was made up of many storytellers back in the day. They think over time many writers and storytellers in Greece composed the two great stories, the Odyssey and the Iliad, and came up with the fictional figure of Homer to go along with the story. The other side of the debate is that Homer is this blind man that wandered from town to town telling his great epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad, to crowds of hundreds and hundreds of people. Even though there is credible evidence to support both sides of the debate this great question is still one of the mysteries of the past.  

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