Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams: Hesiod's Works and Days; Musaeus' Hero and Leander; Juvenal's Fifth Satire

Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.