When the Greeks began to learn how to read and write, one of them decided to write down the old Greek stories that had been told out loud around Greek fires for years and years. His name was Homer, and he was the first great Greek writer. Tradition tells us that Homer was blind—so he listened to the stories he heard, and then wrote them down using the Greek alphabet. Homer wrote the story of a famous war—the Greek attack on the city of Troy. This war was called the “Trojan War,” and Homer tells about it in his long poem, the Iliad. After he finished the Iliad, he wrote another story, called
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