{"echo_id":"66577072-f9e6-4c24-a9b7-0a472bbb293f","kind":"person","canonical_name":"Homer","aliases":["Homeros","Homère","the Homeric poet","Bard of the Odyssey","Odyssey Narrator"],"summary":"Homer (Greek Homeros) is the name the Greek tradition gives the poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This Echo is an identity foothold for constellation research and website travel into Odyssey — not a Haven Soul, not a six-wall Chamber, and not a verified historical biography.\n\nDocumented: the poems exist in the received Homeric tradition. Odyssey Living Reader (read.odyssey.vayati.com) presents Samuel Butler’s public-domain Odyssey. Odyssey /homer/ is the LIVE Narrator-class foundation (poet-frame): audience-facing, not a continuous reading body.\n\nProbable / traditional (not restated as fact here): birthplace contests (Chios, Smyrna, and others), dates, and blindness are ancient lore, not settled documentation on this sheet.\n\nJudgment: treat “Homer” here as the traditional poet-name and Odyssey Narrator referent. The header image is an Odyssey Narrator still — steward interpretation, not a historical likeness.\n\nNegative space: no invented relics; no first-person Homer voice on Echoes; poet-frame marble stays Odyssey-only. Related mythic pilots: Athena and Telemachus (Odyssey I). Chambers embodiment remains Phase B.","years":"traditional (date unresolved)","place_hint":"Homeric tradition; Odyssey Living Reader and Great Hall (odyssey.vayati.com)","tags":["featured","mythic","fiction","odyssey","homeric","narrator","poet","traditional"],"verified":false,"public_publish":true,"primary_image_url":"https://read.odyssey.vayati.com/media/narrators/homer.webp","primary_image_type":"external","is_placeholder":false,"image_is_placeholder":false,"created_at":"2026-08-23T16:27:32.806Z","updated_at":"2026-08-23T16:27:32.806Z"}