Explain the contributions of Homer to Greek literature.

Homer was a blind Greek poet. His contributions to Greek literature were known from his two great epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey. These epics throw light on the then prevalent social and lifestyle of the Greeks. The victory of Greeks over the city of Troy was vividly described in the Iliad. It narrates the struggle of Greeks in saving Helen, their queen who was abducted by the Trojans. Odyssey describes the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus in the battle of Troy. It describes the fall of the city of Troy after the war in a lucid style in Odyssey.