How old was homer when he died?

Answer 1

Homer is the name given to a poet thought to have lived in the 8th Century BCE.

It is that vague, so we don't know his date of birth or death.

Addition:

Even historians aren't sure exactly when he lived. The estimates are that he lived somewhere between 1200 and 900 BC. There are no real historical documentation of his life.

Further view:

A good informed guess of the writing would be 725 BCE.

The period 1200-900 BCE is much too early for some of the material contained in today's version of Homer's poems. On the internal evidence the material in the bard's work covers from 1400s BCE (boar's tusk helmet) 12th C (Ajax already dead before the Troy attack) to the 8th Century BCE (the military-political structure), all gathered in over the centuries as the poems developed by word of mouth and morphed down to the ones we have which were written down when cursive writing became available after the 9th C BCE.

Until writing existed, the word of mouth and and varying versions sung by different bards, and even each bard's own different versions, provided a vast array of products over the half a millenium that the story developed down to Homer's written version.

No doubt even Homer produced several versions he sang - partly memory, partly developmental, partly not to bore his audience who had heard his previous performances and were looking for a fresh angle - no radio or television then to switch to another channel as we do if you've seen it a couple of times before.

The one part which was kept on the straight and narrow by all bards was the 'Catalogue of ships' where the audience would watch like a hawk to see that he got the city contributions correct, but even this was not immune from later doctoring. When the written text had later become corrupted into various versions, Peisistratus tyrant of Athens organised scholars early in the 6th C BCE to produce a recovery back to the origial as could best be determined. This noble ideal did not stop him slyly slipping in to Athens' advantage Salamis as part of Athens to use in a current dispute over ownership of the island with Megara.

Answer 2

Homer the poet died by either getting shot by one of his brothers because they were livid at him or he comitted suicide because he got cancer.

sorry the first answer is false it was for something different

Answer 3

No one quite knows where Homer died. However, most historians believe that Homer was born in Ionia.

Answer 4

heart attack

Answer 5

Homer live in 800 bc and died in 750 bc