ʼS e '''Homer''' am bàrd [[Greugach]] a sgrìobh na dàin mhóramhòra an ''Illiad'' agus an ''Odyssey''. Chan eil mòran fiosrachaidh againn mʼ a dheidhinn - no fiùʼs an robh an duine ann idir, oir tha feadhainn den bheachd gur e buidheann de dhaoine a sgrìobh na dàin sin. Tha feadhainn eile den bheachd gur e boireannach a bhʼ ann. A rèir seann-sgeul ʼs e bàrd dall a bhʼ ann a bha a' fuireach ann an [[Ionia]]. Thathar aʼ creidsinn gun robh e beò mu 800 R.Ch.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Nigel|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136788000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pXhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA366|accessdate=22 November 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Romilly|first1=Jacqueline de|title=A Short History of Greek Literature|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226143125|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_DTllltXBQC&pg=PA1|accessdate=22 November 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref name=bgr>{{cite book|last1=Graziosi|first1=Barbara|title=Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521809665|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCHsh9QWzLYC&pg=PA15|accessdate=22 November 2016|language=en}}</ref>