Homer is said to have died of grief or maybe shame when he was unable to solve the riddle posed below by some small children:

‘What do you leave behind if you know you have it and what do you take with you if don’t know you have it?’

Lice.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, including his existance, making everything said about him to be either myth, allegorical, or just made up out of whole cloth.

Source: Bulfinch’s Mythology, 1991 – 1^st published 1855. Graphic: Bust of Homer, British Museum, Public Domain