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Homer
Homer, hailed
as the poet of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, the two great epics which laid
the foundation of Greek literature, has unfortunately come down to us just as a
name. In fact, many modern scholars are not convinced that there was actually a
man named Homer. According them, these two epics were the works of a group of
poet-singers, collectively known as Homer. Another group however, recognizes
that there was indeed a poet named Homer, but he had only refined the stories
and compiled them into the two epics. Contrarily, if we go by ancient Greek traditions,
there was indeed a man called Homer, who composed the two great epics along
with a number of verses collectively known as ‘Homeric Hymns.’ More
importantly, inhabitants of several cities in the Asia Minor region, known as
the “Homeridae” claimed that they were the direct descendents of the bard.
Modern scholars have woven his life story as much from such ancient traditions
as from certain elements in his works, and the little that we know about him is
from their research.
Year of Birth
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· As Homer was
born before the modern dating system was evolved, it is very hard to pinpoint
his birth year. However, it is certain that Homer lived sometime between the
twelfth and eighth century BC.
· It is to be
remembered that this was the period when the people of Ancient Greece did not
have any script, having lost the Mycenaean scripts, but not yet acquiring the
Phoenician alphabets. Since both the epics ascribed to Homer had been created
in oral tradition, experts believe Homer must have lived sometime in this period.
· Although there
is no hard evidence to determine the exact year of his birth, different
scholars have offered different theories. Herodotus, the ancient historian, who
lived from 484 BC to 425 BC, placed Homer’s year of birth four centuries before
his own, making it around 850 BC.
· Then again,
some modern scholars believe that Homer lived in the twelfth century B.C. when
the War of Troy actually took place. The reason they site is that he could not
have described the topography of the region in such details unless he himself
had been there at that time.
· For example,
Homer writes that the sea-god Poseidon sitting on the highest peak of the
island of Samothrace watched “the city of Priam and the ships of the
Achaeans." Homer could not have written that just by following the maps
because he would have found the view blocked by the island of Imbros.
· It is only in
the modern day that we find that indeed, the plain could be seen from the 5000
feet high peak of Samothrace over a notched shoulder of Imbros. Therefore, they
argue, he must have climbed the peak and watched the ships and the city before
he put Poseidon on it.
· Moreover, there
was no way Homer could have known that a prehistoric fortified citadel did
exist at a site today known as Hissarlik before it was discovered by Heinrich
Schliemann in the nineteenth century AD. Therefore, he must have lived in the
twelfth century BC, to write in such great details about Troy.
· Contrarily, by
studying the style as well as the language of the poems, some other scholars
have come to conclusion that he might have lived sometime in the eighth or
ninth centuries B.C. Among them, many believe that Homer was born sometime
around 750 BC.
Place of Birth
§ Just as the
year, there is much confusion about Homer’s place of birth as well. In ancient
times, the inhabitants of seven different cities had claimed that he was born
in their city. However, such claims have never been validated and no
archeological remains have ever been found.
§ Scholars today
believe that Homer must have resided in some part of Eastern Greece or Asia
Minor. They have specially pinpointed three cities as his place of birth;
Ionia, and an Aeolian settlement called Smyrna, both located in Asia Minor, and
the Island of Chios, situated in the Aegean Sea, close to the Anatolian coast.
§ There are
various reasons for such assumptions. For example, the dialect he had used was
mainly Ionic, mixed with a little bit of Aeolic. Such Ionic-Aeolic mixture was
mainly used in the border areas between Ionia and Aeolis and also in the island
of Chios.
§ That apart,
there are frequent mentions of strong winds blowing from the direction of
Thrace in northwest in his works. This led to the belief that he might have
come from one of these three cities.
§ At the same
time, he had often been referred to as Melesigenes, son of Mele. Now, Mele is a
river in Smyrna and it led many to believe that he was actually born in Smyrna.
§ Moreover, in
around 6th century BC, a family believed to be Homer’s descendants was found to
be living in Chios. Some however refer to it as an eponymous guild of bards,
known as the Homeridae or the sons of Homer.
§ Whoever they
might have been, the members not only claimed that the bard was their ancestor,
but had also helped in preserving and propagating his works by religiously
memorizing and reciting them. Because of it, the residents of Chios claimed
that Homer came from their city.
§ Roman satirist
Lucian had added another twist to this already complex subject, depicting Homer
as a Babylonian named Tigranes. He goes on to say that it was Tigranes who took
up the name Homer after he had been taken captive by the Greeks.
About Homer
§ What little we
know about the man himself has come down from his writings. Although he had
successfully concealed himself in both the epics, in ‘The Odyssey’ he speaks
about a blind bard, who according many scholars, is Homer himself.
§ In ‘the
Odyssey’, the bard named Demodocus recounts the story of Troy to the
shipwrecked Odysseus at the court of the Phaeacian king. If we go by the theory
that Demodocus is actually Homer, we must accept that he was the son of
Telemachus and Epikaste.
§ However, ‘The
Life of Homer', written possibly in the 3rd or 4th century AD by somebody
referred to as Pseudo Herodotus, tells a different story. Here it is claimed that
Homer, whose original name was Melesigenes, was born out of a liaison between
Cretheis of Argos and his ward, the daughter of Melanopus of Cyme in Aeolis.
§ Nonetheless,
from Homer’s works, one can deduce that he must have come from an aristocratic
family. The scholars have assumed this because none of his protagonists come
from an ordinary background. Episodes such as the beating up of a commoner
named Thersites also corroborate such beliefs.
§ Some
biographers claim that he used to hang around with ordinary folks in the port
towns though he was actually a court singer. However, if he did hang around in
such places, it must have been to gather material for his works.
§ It is not known
how or when Homer became blind. Many also doubt the theory that he was actually
blind for he had depicted the landscapes as well as events much too precisely
to have been able to do so without the help of eyesight. It has been suggested
that he might have developed eye diseases later in life.
§ However, every
biographer agrees on one fact; that he was a wandering minstrel, travelling
from place to place, singing the stories of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey.’ It
is said that, in course of his travelling, he met Hesiod, another ancient Greek
poet, at the funeral games of Amphidamas, conducted by his son, Ganyctor.
§ Eventually,
they agreed to take part in the contest of wit. Unable to decide, the judge
asked them to recite poems. While Homer quoted from ‘The Iliad’ Hesiod recited
from his ‘Works and Days.’ It is said that the judge declared Hesiod the winner
because he had talked about peace while Homer’s poem was about war.
§ There is an
interesting though unverified story about Homer’s death. According to legends
quoted by the 5th century BC biographer and Pre-Socratic philosopher Heracleitus
of Ephesus, some boys asked Homer a riddle about catching lice. Not being able
to solve that, he died out of desperation.
Major Works
§ Homer is no
doubt best remembered for the two great epics, ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey.’ However,
because of the differences in their styles of composition many suspected that
they were authored by two different persons. However, after further scrutiny,
it was found that the author of the two epics was the same.
§ It was later
assumed that Homer had composed ‘Iliad’ when he was still young while ‘Odyssey’
was composed in his old age. Most scholars also agree that, initially created
orally, both the epics had undergone changes and refinement by subsequent bards
and hence the differences.
Trivia
§ Among the
scholars, the debate over the identity of Homer and the authorship of the two
epics ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ is now being referred to as the ‘Homeric Question.’
The debate has its root in the Hellenistic period in early fourth century BC,
but has flourished in the nineteenth and twentieth century AD.
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