Homer
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Homer
Sort Name:
Homer
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Indeterminable
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Other
Specific Job:
Poet
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Homer is the classic Greek epic poet to whom The Iliad and The Odyssey are attributed. His blindness is part of his mythic status. To Gavin Stevens, Homer is proof of what mankind can achieve: despite his disability, he "charted the ultimate frontiers of passion and defeat and glory and ambition and courage and hope and fear" (200).
Disability:
visually impaired
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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