Homer

[Rachy]

How books has Homer actually written, because at the moment I've only heard of two, and I've read The Iliad, and just started The Odyssey, and I was just wondering if I'm just being a complete thick head and missing anything else!! Lol.

[Rachy]

*How many books.....

[Scheherazade]

I think those are the major works attributed to Homer. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer):


Homer (Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros) was a legendary (or perhaps mythical) early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War"), the corpus of Homeric Hymns, and various other lost or fragmentary works such as Margites. A few ancient authors credited him with the entire Epic Cycle, which included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons.

Tradition held that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace, but otherwise his biography is a blank slate.

It has repeatedly been questioned whether the same poet was responsible for both the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"; the "Batrachomyomachia", Homeric hymns and cyclic poems are generally agreed to be later than these two epic poems.
If you visit this site, you can get some more info on his other less known works.

[Snukes]

Chances are also pretty good Homer didn't write anything, in the way we think of writing. When the Iliad and Odyssey were recorded, Greece had just come out of a lovely little Dark Age, during which writing had gone vamoose. The lovely thing about that is a reversion to the Oral Tradition, in which stories were passed on by being told and retold. (Archaeologists love this!) So most likely, Homer just had the best penmanship in his class, the most patience with his rambling grandfather, or maybe the biggest commision by the local Basileus... :D

(My education has GOT to be good for something...)

If you're asking because you're interested in Epic Poetry and are looking for some more to read when you finish the Odyssey, I am FULL of helpful suggestions!

[mono]

Snukes, you read my mind. Very true that Homer merely documented some of the oral traditions in Greek culture; apparently, however, some literary scholars theorize that he may have written the first few scenes of The Iliad. The truth in this seems very debatable and controversial.