![]() The Iliad is composed of 15,693 hexameters (lines of verse), and is divided into 24 books corresponding to each letter of the Greek alphabet - alpha to omega, a system that was already in place by the time of Herodotus. Homer is the earliest poet in Western culture whose works have survived intact. In conjunction with Hesiod, Homer acts as a great pool of information for the Greeks about their gods. ![]() ![]() He composed (not wrote, since the poems were created and transmitted orally, they were not written down until much later) two major works, the Iliad and the Odyssey other works were attributed to Homer, but even in antiquity their authorship was disputed. 750 BCE) is perhaps the greatest of all epic poets and his legendary status was well established by the time of Classical Athens. ![]()
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