Homer By ClayMH 850 BCE Citium becomes the first Phoenician colony in the Mediterranean 850 BCE Glazing pottery technique discovered Period: 850 BCE to 750 BCE Homer Possbly Existed Period: 850 BCE to 750 BCE Homer Possbly Existed 814 BCE Carthage is founded 776 BCE First athletic contest at Olympia 753 BCE Rome founded 750 BCE Ionia emerges as a political entity Homer is thought of as to be from here 750 BCE The Iliad and the Odyssey are written, presumably in Ionia