Scholars continue to be fascinated by the question of when Homer composed the Iliad, and one recent study even applied mathematics to try to pinpoint its date. This means that by comparing these three languages, we can use mathematics to work out when Homer wrote the Iliad. When Homer wrote the Iliad according to mathematicsWhat were the results of this study? The study’s initial result was somewhat different: the mathematics suggested that Homer wrote the Iliad in 707 BC. Thus, we cannot say that mathematics proves Homer composed the Iliad in 762 BC.