[Savage Beast]

There's a misprint in the next-to-last paragraph (I think)--"10th century B.C." Homer wasn't written down that early. In paragraph 4 of the article it says "10th century A.D."; I think this may be correct. Right?

[DrC]

“There’s a misprint in the next-to-last paragraph (I think)—”10th century B.C.” Homer wasn’t written down that early. In paragraph 4 of the article it says “10th century A.D.”; I think this may be correct. Right?”

This is in dispute, but the earliest dates posited are 8th-9th century BC, while others posit 6th-7th century BC. 10th century AD corresponds to Dark Ages/Middle Ages (1066=Norman conquest of England demarks the line between the 2), when the Greek and Roman empires were long dormant.

[aruanan]

In paragraph 4 of the article it says "10th century A.D."; I think this may be correct. Right?

Yes. Very few of these classics have any copies that date earlier than many centuries after their composition and about the largest number of copies of any of them is a handful. The major exception is the New Testament.