Read these central ideas from "Homer: The Poet for All Ages." Some people question whether Homer really existed.
People have different ideas about who Homer was.

Which details from "Homer: The Poet for All Ages" best support these two central ideas about Homer?

Select the two correct answers.

"Some people believe that such a poet really lived, and that he composed the Iliad and the Odyssey himself and recited them in the cities where he stayed."

"In this way, they believe, these great poems grew, being added to and gradually shaped through many years."

"Whatever the source of the poems, however, they must have been recited for a good many years before they were finally written down."

"One legend says that long ago in Greece, a blind poet, Homer, wandered from city to city and earned his living by reciting poems."

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?