Marble portrait bust of Homer, Roman, from Baiae, Campania, Italy, 1st-2nd century. Artist: Unknown
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Marble portrait bust of Homer, Roman, from Baiae, Campania, Italy, 1st-2nd century. Artist: Unknown

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Marble portrait bust of Homer, Roman, from Baiae, Campania, Italy, 1st-2nd century. The blind poet, Homer, is thought to have lived in Greece around 750 to 700 BC. He is the most famous poet of all antiquity; the author of the Iliad and Odyssey, epic poems focussing respectively upon the heroes Achilles and Odysseus. From the British Museum's collection.

Date

1th century

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Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

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HRM19B75_094

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