Circa 8th c. B.C.: Writing the 2 epic poems that'll make me famous! Scholars would never doubt my existence... d'oh!
Homer The 1760s establishment of this permanently... [DOC] [TLE] Homeric Question - Wikipedia [PAR] The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the 
identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (
especially concerning the Iliad).