Homer passed away today
Could a man like Homer even exist today? in this modern age?
i'd imagine he would have just ended up in prison for a long time in his 20s
especially in this very emasculated culture
/r9k/
>>8241972
uneducated pleb here, what are some things he did that would have landed him in modern prisons?
>>8241972
>emasculated
got a problem, conservative bitch?
>>8241986
writing the iliad.
>>8242013
He didn't write it, Greeks said that Homer was blind. Homer was only the poetic tale teller and could not write.
>>8242066
Homer is a mythological creature with different origin stories. Maybe he didn't exist.
>>8241986
>being Greek
>>8242075
That's of course possible, Homer might have been just a manifestation of all the great poetic tale tellers in ancient greek. It still raises the question, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
>>8242113
Some people think that Homer didn't existed but a bunch of people wrote those books
>>8241972
>Could Homer exist today?
Yes, his name is Michael Bay.
>>8242075
Didn't the Oracle at Delphi tell Emperor Hadrian that Homer was Telemachus' son, thus making him gotdamn Odysseus' grandson?
>>8242189
People say that about basically every historical figure before photography existed
>>8242080
kek