Homer and the Greek Alphabet

Homer is thought to have written the iliad and odyssey around 800 b c e. He was a lyricist, who communicated through song and poetry rather than prose. It is highly unlikely that he himself would have written down on paper, or papyrus for that matter,. But rather would simply have been the one to performed them by heart, through memory. This leads me finally to my question, do you give credence to the possibility that the creation, development of the greek alphabet was a direct response to some one's desire to record and be able to accurately retall the timeless and fantastical poems of homer? Or even more controversially, that homer himself was the creator