When did homer write Troy?

[mcgoveb2]

when did homer write troy

[sft42]

Right after he helped Lisa with her homework and played catch with Bart.

[RickF]

If Homer existed at all he lived in the 8th century BC. "His" two most famous works are the Illiad, dealing with the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, all about Ullyses' journey home from the war.

[darth vader]

If RickF? Herodotus mentions him and everyone agrees Herodotus existed. The dates sound about right (ish - they're only circa dates as no one knows for sure)

[omblod]

In defence of RickF, the existence of Homer as an actual historical personage has long been argued, some suggesting that the stories of the Iliad and Odyssey belonged originally to the oral tradition. Bear in mind that there are still those who argue that Shakespeare didn't actually exist and that his plays were in fact written by Christopher Marlowe or Ben Johnsonunder a nom-de-plume!

[darth vader]

point taken

[firefly]

Perhaps the questioner is asking did Homer invent Troy. This isn't very likely, considering how many wars between Greece and Troy (or Ileum) are mentioned in Greek myths. Whether or not Troy existed-well a lot of archeologists think it did, but it could have just been an invented place for Greece to have wars with. Certainly no-one's quite sure where Troy was.

[Postie]

It is extremely doubtful that Homer wrote anything, he was a "Bard", a singer of folk tales whose job it was to entertain the palace banquets with stories of Greece's illustrious past. It is now commonly recognised that he composed the Illiad and the Odyssey in the second half of the eighth century to be performed in their entirety at bardic festivals held three or four times a year throughout the greek islands (Homer was probably born in Smyrna or Chios) read by a succession of bards with Homer himself at the major festivals. The first true style of literary writing emerged during that century when the Greeks took over the Phonician style of writing which allowed a flow of text rather than the purely accounting tablet writing previously used. This allowed scribes to write down the words of many bardic compositions, the Illiad and the Odyssey being the best known and the best preserved. Rather like a comedy popsong or nursery rhyme of today, the audience would recognise phrases, sentences and even complete verses and join in with gusto at appropriate moments.

[spa boy]

Ithika.

[Patrese]

8th Century BC is right I think...and it's Odysseyus he wrote about, hence the name Odyssey. Ulysses is the Roman equivalent, but Homer was Greek.

[hongkongrox]

I'm pretty sure it was around the time he wrote Romeo and Juliet. I'm not sure when that was though.  I'll check up it.

[Alycia_V]

Homer dodn;t write troy actually he didn't write anything he was a blind man who sent his stories through the ages by passage of mouth....that is if he even existed.
He did write the odyssey though there is no solid time frame....