Homer iliad odyssey authorship

  • What is the homeric question
  • Which was written first, the iliad or the odyssey?
  • What is the invocation of the odyssey

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    Did the Iliad have an author? Since this is probably the best known text from the ancient Greek world,  one might find the question a puzzling one: of course the Iliad had an author; it was Homer. But it turns out that this answer is no longer accepted bygd experts in classical literature — and hasn’t been for at least ninety years. Adam Kirsch’s recent piece in the New Yorker, “The Classicist Who Killed Homer,” sheds light on the topic, and also raises highly interesting questions about the nature of imagination, narrative, and story-telling. Kirsh’s piece is a discussion of Robert Kanigel’s biography of Milman Parry, Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry. Parry was a young professor of classics at Harvard in the 1930s, and his treatment of “Homer” created, according to Kanigel, a permanent change in the way that classicists c

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    Homeric Question

    Debate about the identity of Homer and the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey

    The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the Iliad). The subject has its roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period, but has flourished among Homeric scholars of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

    The main subtopics of the Homeric Question are:

    • "Who is Homer?"[1]
    • "Are the Iliad and the Odyssey of multiple or single authorship?"[2]
    • "By whom, when, where, and beneath what circumstances were the poems composed?"[3]

    To these questions the possibilities of modern textual criticism and archaeological answers have added a few more:

    • "How reliable fryst vatten the tradition embodied in the Homeric poems?"[4]
    • "How old are the oldest elements in Homeric poetry which can be da