vocabulary adoption of the Semitic word base 'MR, which means "say" or "tell". "Homer" may simply be the Mediterranean version of "saga". Pseudo-Plutarch suggests that the name comes from a word meaning "to follow" and another meaning "blind". Other sources connect Homer's name with Smyrna for several etymological reasons.

Time frame

Exactly when these poems would have taken on a fixed written form is subject to debate. The traditional solution is the

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