On the Origin of Homer

The word Homer means hostage or surety. By surety the Greeks mean, what are you putting down that we can keep while you perform what you say you are going to perform for the money or goods that we are putting up and you can abscond with? If a person is left as surety like getting a secured loan, his life is forfeit to those who are bankrolling those who have left him as collateral. It is my contention that the writer who called himself the Hostage or Homer was a Babylonian who had searched the heavens and found himself in Greece and taken by them. Whoever the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey was, he was of fantastic genuis and exceptionally learned for his language is unequalled. Therefore, since the more than 3000 years since the events of which he reported on have passed, I can make a proposal and I await for comments from those who can tell me that I am wrong.

Homer was a hostage. He was kept prisoner by the Greeks. Since he was kept prisoner by the Greeks, his ties to actually being Greek are cloudy even though his use of the Greek language is unparralled. The star gazers of Babylonia were great seers and knew Greek as easily as they knew Persian.

The biblical accounts of the Persians or later day Iran are well known. The history of the Persians attacking Athens is also briefly mentioned in history books. The fact that Persians had migrated to Greece is obvious.
I am proposing a new theory of he who called himself The Hostage, omeros,or Homer. I propose that he was actually a very wealthy and highly educated Babylonian who was caught by the Greeks and kept to insure their own safety from the dreaded sword of Persia.

Let's not forget, the Persians had completely obliterated Israel and their wealth and power were of biblical proportions. I say that The Hostage, Homer, was a great and powerful Babylonian and the Greeks had captured him in Troy and kept him to insure their own protection against the revenge of Persia.

Today, many people confuse the word Homer as if he were Shakespeare. Homer wrote and his books were read. By whom? By royal families in Greece. He was a hostage.

What is of interest, in this article, is the definition of the word homer in Greek and its not so coincidental connection to the life of the writer who became known as Homer. There are historical scholars out there who can add more light to the enigma of a writer portraying war preparations, war scenes, conversations between Greeks amongt Greeks not as fiction but as documentary. Since he is not above showing the barbararic nature of Greeks as well as their fabled courage, he is not ethnocentric and I contend that he was a hostage who wrote for the pleasure of his keepers.