According to Greek tradition, he was the author of the so-called Homeric hymns (poems ranging from a few lines to hundreds, written in the same dialect as the Iliad and the Odyssey) and heroic poems: Batrachomyomachia ("Battle of the Frogs and Mice"), Margites, of which only a few lines have survived, Kerkopes and Epigoni.
From the time of Herodotus (the Greek historian known as the Father of History, who lived between 484 and 426 BC), the belief began to spread that Homer was only the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
