jan 1, 750 BC - Homers Illiad and Odyssey are first written down
Description:
They were orally composed and remembered for centuries. While its not clear who Homer actually was, he is believed to have been a blind poet living in the 8th or 9th century BC.Other sources suggests it being a collective of poets or even a woman composing the poems up to 650 BC.
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Date:
jan 1, 750 BC
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~ 2778 years ago