Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Composed

Sometime around 750-700 BCE, the Greek poet Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems about the Trojan War and Odysseus's wild journey home. These were originally oral traditions performed from memory before being written down. While Israel's prophets were writing scripture, Greece was creating its own foundational literary canon. Both traditions would shape civilization for millennia — straight up parallel world-building.