2-651-085 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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. (Colorised artwork based on an original sculpture).