the odyssey took place how many years ago?

Question

i am testing your history

Answer 1

The Odyssey is believed to have been written sometime between 800-600 BC, but the events in the story took place in a much earlier time.

Since The Odyssey is based off of oral Greek folklore that orginated from the time of the Trojan War, the events in the story took place many, many years before they were committed to writing. The Trojan War was generally considered to be around 1200-1100 BC, with Odysseus' Odyssey suppossedly occurring just after the war and lasting 11 years.

Thus the events themselves took place over 3100 years ago.

Answer 2

Although some scholars still maintain that the epic was written in its present form in the sixth century BC in Athens, mounting evidence indicates an earlier date. The weight of the scholarship implies that The Odyssey was probably composed and possibly written down about 700 BC.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The-Odyssey.id-99,pageNum-2.html

The textual history of the Odyssey is assumed to have begun with an oral version of the poem which was transmitted by local bards and probably recorded on papyri shortly after Homer's death. Although Homeric Greece did not yet have a system of writing appropriate for literary texts, records indicate that a Phoenician alphabet may have been adapted and used for this purpose in the eighth century B.C. Once set down in writing, the poems most likely became the exclusive proprety of the Homeridae, or sons of Homer, a bardic guild whose members performed and preserved the poems. Scholars believe that in the second half of the sixth century B.C. the Athenian dictator Peisistratus, who ruled from 560-27 B.C., established a Commission of Editors of Homer to edit the text of the poems and remove any errors and interpolations that had accumulated in the process of transmission—thereby establishing a Canon of Homer. Fragments of papyrus have been found in Egypt, the earliest dating from the third century B.C., but the oldest complete manuscript is the Laurentianus of the tenth or eleventh century A.D. The first printed edition of Homer's poetry appeared in Europe in 1488 and remained in use until the seventeenth century. Many translations of the Odyssey have subsequently been published; critics agree that the most influential translations have been those by George Chapman, Alexander Pope, Samuel Butler, and Richmond Lattimore.

Answer 3

Homer wrote the Odyssey 3000 plus or minus 200 years ago and it's been read by almost every generation since.

Answer 4

The Odyssey took place about 2,500 years ago, maybe 3000.