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Ancient accounts of Homer
The ancient accounts of Homer include many passages in archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors that mention or allude to Homer, and ten biographies of Homer, often referred to as ''Lives''.
==Date of Homer==
Establishing an accurate date for Homer's life presents significant difficulties. No documentary record of the man's life is known to have existed other than his writings of the ''Odyssey,'' as well as the ''Iliad.'' All accounts are based on tradition. Only one explicit date exists. Herodotus maintains that Hesiod and Homer lived not more than 400 years before his own time, consequently not much before 850 BC.〔Herodotus, ''Histories'' 2.53.〕 Herodotus admits that this is his own opinion. He was not sure of the dates of some of the poets believed in his time to have been earlier, but he relies on the priestess of Dodona in asserting that they were actually later. Modern opinion is that the priestess was right; the poets were later.
A less opinionated indirect date does exist. Artemon of Clazomenae, an annalist, gives Arctinus of Miletus, a pupil of Homer, a birth date of 744 BC. Received opinion generally dates him approximately between 750 and 700 BC.〔Homer; Rieu, EV (translator); Rieu, DCH (editor); Jones, Peter (editor): ''The Odyssey'' (Penguin, 2003), p. ''i''.〕 But West (2010) dates the composition of the ''Iliad'' to the period 680-650 BC, with the composition of the ''Odyssey'' being later still.
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