English majors etc...

[Ags2000]

In my mom's class, her kids are required to do a research paper on an author and one of mom's kids wants to do it on Homer. Mom can't think of his real name, does anybody have any idea?

thanks

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[Lynn]

Are you talking about the Homer who wrote the Iliad? I'm pretty sure his name was simply Homer. I don't think he went by another name.

[Liza]

Yeah, Homer is his name; at least that's what he's known as. If there's more to his name it's disappeared long ago. :)

Good luck to the kid finding info on the guy - we're talking ancient Greece here. It might be easier to do a more modern writer - like Shakespeare! :lol:

[vienna waits]

Originally posted by Liza
Good luck to the kid finding info on the guy -

yeah and any info found would just be part of mythology so it isn't neccesarily true.. he also wrote the oddysey.

[Georgia's on my Mind]

I had to do a research paper on him a few years ago, one source i found actually said "Homer" was a woman...

[dawsongirl]

I always thought Homer was his only name. At least no one told me any different.

[White_Daisy]

Originally posted by Georgia's on my Mind
I had to do a research paper on him a few years ago, one source i found actually said "Homer" was a woman...

A woman?!?! What source was this?!?!