Homer

Homer was a great Greek poet and philosopher. Homer created Odysseus and his adventures. After amusing the gods in his epic tale "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", the gods found the idea of Odysseus a rather clever idea, so much so that they created a real life Odysseus.

Early Beginnings, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"
Homer lived in Greece all his life and, up until the Trojan War, did not consider himself a believer in the gods. However, after witnessing the horror of the wars, Homer eventually converted into paganism and begin to focus his writings and poems towards a more religious theme and context.

Homer wrote both "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" back to back. Both books focused on its title character, Odysseus, as he faced many obsticles and challenges along his way.

Affliations with the gods
After witnessing what a tremendous impact his works had on their society, the gods themselves found the idea of "a god among men" to be quite intreguing. One night, Zeus himself appeared to Homer and told him of their raving of his works and even told him that his works inspired a real life god among men. This worried Homer, as he tells Zeus it is just a story to demonstrate how mighty the actual gods are, not men themselves. Zeus, annoyed with Homer's pleas, leaves him and begins to create Odysseus.

Later Years and the Pandora Box
By the time Odysseus was in his early 30's, he singlehandedly conquered nearly all of Greece. Homer, now elderly and frail, prays to the gods to kill Odysseus. Hearing his, and the many other cries for help around Greece, Zeus sends Athena to Homer with the Pandora Box, a box that can contain any evil insdie of it.

Athena gives the box to Homer. As Homer finds Odysseus, Odysseus is swept inside the box and the lid closes shut. In exchange for his help, Athena shows Homer the Pool of Fire, which offers immortality to anyone who baths in it. After achieving immortality, Homer writes his name on a nearby rock. Nothing is known of his whereabouts after this.