It was Homer. He is regarded as the first and greatest epic poet. The Iliad tells about the siege of Troy by Greeks in an effort to get Helen back to Menelaus. The Odyssey is about the struggles of the Greek hero Odysseus and the many trials he had endured to get back to him in Ithaca while his wife Penelope fends off the suitors who took residents in her house to win her hand in marriage. To this day both poems are still being studied in schools and universities as well as been the subjects of films over the years are proof of Homer’s talents for creating such masterpieces of literature.