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You shouldn't just mention the last name and year without properly citing it. And which West? Martin?
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2 changes: first, removal of the last sentence of the first paragraph--it is extraneous; the other poets are not the subject of this article, nor is Herodotus' reliability in this context. Second, the removal of the West comment entirely--this article cares about the ''ancient'' sourced dates of Homer, not the modern scholarly ones; leave those to the Homer article.
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==Date of Homer==
Establishing an accurate date for Homer's life presents significant difficulties. No documentary record of his life is known to have existed other than his writings of the ''[[Odyssey]],'' as well as the ''[[Iliad]].'' All accounts are based on tradition. Only one explicit date exists. [[Herodotus]] maintains that [[Hesiod]] and Homer lived not more than 400 years before his own time, consequently not much before 850 BC.<ref>Herodotus, ''Histories'' 2.53.</ref>
==The lives and the epigrams==
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