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Homer was famous because his two poems The Odyssey and Iliad were the most influential poems in the world and the two oldest surviving pieces of Greek literature. Most literary scholars agree that he was the main influence of the modern western canon, and everything written after his poems were published were based on or influenced by him.
Not only that, his poems and his writing style was so great that the Romans sought to make their own epics. Even Alexander the great walked around with a copy of the Iliad because it was packed full of useful advice, e.g. the best way to bake bread (yes, really - how to bake bread!) and how to fix a chariot wheel (whaat? yeah what!).
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∙ 15y agoHomer Simpson is famous for comedy. But the Homer you're talking about was a famous greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odessy, which were famous poems that tell of the Trojan War. The Trojan War was a war fought between Troy and the Achaeans
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