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In Homer's Odyssey, Demodocus or Demodokos is a storyteller at the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians at Scheria. He sings the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles, the episode of the Trojan horse and the loves of Ares and Aphrodite.
He is blind: "A servant presently led in the famous bard Demodokos, whom the muse had dearly loved, but to whom she had given both good and evil, for though she had endowed him with a divine gift of song, she had robbed him of his eyesight" (VIII, 62–64, ed. Samuel Butler). From this excerpt, the Greeks concluded that Homer was blind as well.
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