Average Pay and Range. The average hourly pay for an auto mechanic was $18.97 as of 2013, or the equivalent of $39,450 annually full time, according to the BLS. Wages varied depending on the type of job and the mechanic's experience.
That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odysseyâso much may be said to be probable. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the worldâs literary artists.
Homer. Little is known about the life of Homer, the author credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey who is arguably the greatest poet of the ancient world. Historians place his birth sometime around 750 BC and conjecture that he was born and resided in or near Chios.