Homer

The Significance of Homer to the Greeks
Homer’s ideas and writings had a significant and important impact on the Greek culture and on the Greek people, and still are impacting the thoughts and ideas of individuals today who read The Odyssey and especially The Iliad.
If Homer really existed, he is thought to exist around 750 B.C. He was a Greek poet/philosopher that wrote two famous stories, The Odyssey and The Iliad. These stories were passed down orally for many generations and finally written down after the reemergence of writing to the Greek culture. Homer used his story The Iliad to cultivate his ideas of the human condition as it sometimes is. His purpose was to enlighten the Greek c...