The First Six Books of Homer's Iliad: With Explanatory Notes, Intended for Beginners in the Epic Dialect; Accompanied with Numerous References to ... and to Goodwin's Greek Moods and Tenses

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.