Homer's epics
Troy and Odysseus' wanderings open European literature
Tradition credits the poet Homer with the Iliad and the Odyssey, epics of the Trojan War and Odysseus's wanderings. They became the foundation of Greek education and the starting point of European literature.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 8th century BC
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 763 BC Assyrian eclipse — 13 years earlier
Africa
- c. 727 BC Kushite conquest of Egypt — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Piye (aged 20)