It seems likely to me that Homer's works were amalgams of stories from the period of the bronze age collapse. During this time there was a broad spectrum collap

It seems likely to me that Homer's works were amalgams of stories from the period of the bronze age collapse. During this time there was a broad spectrum collapse of civilization and power structures in the Mediterranean, and there was extensive raiding from groups of folks collectively called the "sea peoples" of which the Mycenneans almost certainly were a part. The "ten years" of Odysseus's journey is likely poetic license, but given that Troy was sacked and burned in 1183 BC and the eclipse occurred only 5 years later in 1178 BC it's quite possible that there were dramatic and memorable stories around both those events which circulated in greece around those times. And then during the chaos of the Bronze age collapse and rebuilding of civilization (which took about 2 more centuries) resulted in heavy embellishment and modification of those stories until they congealed into the pseuo-mythological forms they took on before being codified into oral history (which can actually have a high accuracy of retaining details) until Homer formalized them.