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    What was the real name of Homer?

    Question #72909. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Dec 04 06 2:12 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		Homer Jay Simpson (born c.1956) is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

    Homer (Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and aoidos ("singer") traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

    [WIKI]

    Dec 04 06, 2:26 AM
    tragic_flawed

    		Actually- H'omer meant captive in Greek- so that was not his real name....there are several possibilities-

    Dec 04 06, 3:23 AM
    miffy42

    		. Who was Homer?

    No one knows. Even the ancient Greeks were not able to agree about when and where Homer lived. One popular account was that he was born some time in the 8th century BC in Smyrna in Asia Minor, lived on the island of Chios, and died on the small island of Ios. Greek writers also claimed that he was blind, that his real name was Melesigines, and that his father was the river Meles and his mother a nymph named Kretheis.

    http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Iliad.html

    Dec 04 06, 8:35 AM

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