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Homer
     
Homer
a Greek poet who probably lived around 800 to 700 years BC. His two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which tell the stories of characters such as Achilles and Odysseus and the Greek war against Troy, have had great influence on European literature.
—Homeric adjective
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