Homer's most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of values that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves. His poems provided a fixed model of heroism ...

Legend has it that the island of Ios, Greece was where Homer took his last breath and that now he lies in his tomb on a hill ...

and he’s already keeping the promise he made about his post-Oppenheimer work. The Odyssey is an epic poem by Homer about the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, embarking on a treacherous ...