Homer

Homer was a blind Greek poet. The Iliad and The Odyssey were two of his books. (COMIC: Doctor on the Menu) It described the sacking of the citadel of Troy and involved a Trojan Horse. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, AUDIO: A Thing of Guile) According to one account, Homer took part in the fall of Troy as a spy for the Greeks, during which he was blinded: first in one eye by Odysseus, leading to him taking on the nickname of Cyclops, and later in the other by Achilles. (PROSE: The Myth Makers) However, another account showed Cyclops dying without losing his second eye or going on to write epics about the War, with no mention of him being Homer. (TV: The Myth Makers)
Homer met the Twelfth Doctor and Clara and helped them make peace with several Cyclopes. (COMIC: Doctor on the Menu)
According to Sarah Jane Smith, Homer was like a news anchormen of ancient Greece, who heard stories and wrote them down. She believed that some of these stories were based on real happenings. (PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon)
When the First Doctor and Steven Taylor discussed the plans for the capture of Troy, Steven asked why the couldn't use the wooden horse, which the Doctor replied with denial, believing that the whole story was absurd and might have been invented by Homer as a dramatic device. (TV: The Myth Makers)
The Eighth Doctor had a book of Homer in the library in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Reckless Engineering)
Homer would encounter the First Doctor three more times after the fall of Troy, first when the Doctor rescued him from wandering towards a burning Library of Alexandria, secondly when the Doctor rescued Aeneas at Carthage, and a final time many years later, when Homer recounted his perspective on the Fall of Troy and the Doctor inquired as to the status of Vicki Pallister. (PROSE: The Myth Makers)
Category:Poets from the real world
Category:People from the real world encountered by the First Doctor
Category:People from the real world encountered by the Twelfth Doctor
Category:Distant past individuals