Who wrote the "Lliad and the Odyssey"? ?

Question: Who wrote the "Lliad and the Odyssey"!? !?
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Homer!.(8th century B!.C!.)He was Greek poet,author of the Iliad and OdysseyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Homer (ancient Greek: ?μηρο?, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey!. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition!. According to Martin West, "Homer" is "not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name!." The poems are now widely regarded as the culmination of a long tradition of orally composed poetry, but the way in which they reached their final written form, and the role that an individual poet, or poets, played in this process is disputed!. By the reckoning of scholars like Geoffrey Kirk, both poems were created by an individual genius who drew much of his material from various traditional stories!. Others, like Martin West, hold that the epics were composed by a number of poets!. Gregory Nagy maintains that the epics are not the creation of any individual; rather, they slowly evolved towards their final form over a period of centuries and, in this view, are the collective work of generations of poets!.

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Phemius, son of Terpes, court bard to Ulysses of Ithaca!. Phemius spent the Trojan War at home, and relied on Ulysses for his information (he also writes into the Odyssey the part about being spared by Ulysses in return for composing an epic about him, just after Ulysses has finished killing the suitors)!.

Phemius evidently gave satisfaction, but it would seem that later in life, Ulysses' failed intrigue to become king of Italy (hinted at in the Frisian Oera Linda Book) created problems for him, and Phemius ended up as a hostage ('homeros') on the Aegean island of Chios, where he seems to have composed the Iliad (and some additional minor works, of which we retain only fragments)!. While there, the 'homeros' (hostage)
attracted a number of would-be poets, later known as the Homeridae!.

Because of confusion over authorship of works by Homer and the Homeridae, Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens c!.560-527, had the Homeric works copied out, authorship assigned as far as it could be proved, and thus gave us Homer's works as we know them!.

There was a rumour current in antiquity that Homer 'borrowed' some of the work of a distinguished female poet of his time, but I cannot remember the reference, and would not place too much credence in the story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That would be Homer!.
Not the Homer J!. Simpson that we all know and love but just Homer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Homer wrote The Iliad and the OdysseyWww@QuestionHome@Com

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