Blind Bard? What History Tells Us about ‘Homer and His Iliad’

Homer Was as Fictional as His Tale of the Trojan War, Right? Robin Lane Fox Says No

G.K. Chesterton must be among our least Homeric modern writers, but in The Everlasting Man he paid striking tribute to the Iliad:

A poet who may have been a beggar and a ballad-monger, who may have been unable to read and write, and was described by tradition as a blind, composed a poem about the Greeks going to war with this town to recover the most bea…