Homer's work is passed through oral tradition later it was written and elaborated by school of poets.
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accordingl toSpencer Alexander McDaniel
Answered November 26, 2018
Although the Iliad and the Odyssey are traditionally attributed to a single man named Homer, whom legend claims was a blind bard from the island of Chios, very few classicists today accept this ancient tradition as genuine. The poems themselves mention absolutely nothing about their supposed author and they bear all the hallmarks of oral epics. The ancient accounts of Homer’s supposed life are all extremely late and contradictory.
Instead, most classicists since the time of Milman Perry and Albert Lord have generally agreed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not originally composed by a single poet, but rather passed down through oral tradition and expanded and elaborated by a whole school of poets over the course of several centuries until they were finally written down.
The poems were probably mostly composed in either the late eighth or early seventh century BC. They were most likely first written down in Athens in the late sixth century BC during the reign of the tyrant Peisistratos, whom ancient tradition credits with having issued a decree for the Homeric poems to be collected and written down in order to create standard editions of them.
In other words, Homer, the supposed great blind poet from the island of Chios, never existed. Homer is a legend, not a historical figure.
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Homer's work is passed through oral tradition later it was written and elaborated by school of poets.
Explanation:
accordingl toSpencer Alexander McDaniel
Answered November 26, 2018
Although the Iliad and the Odyssey are traditionally attributed to a single man named Homer, whom legend claims was a blind bard from the island of Chios, very few classicists today accept this ancient tradition as genuine. The poems themselves mention absolutely nothing about their supposed author and they bear all the hallmarks of oral epics. The ancient accounts of Homer’s supposed life are all extremely late and contradictory.
Instead, most classicists since the time of Milman Perry and Albert Lord have generally agreed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not originally composed by a single poet, but rather passed down through oral tradition and expanded and elaborated by a whole school of poets over the course of several centuries until they were finally written down.
The poems were probably mostly composed in either the late eighth or early seventh century BC. They were most likely first written down in Athens in the late sixth century BC during the reign of the tyrant Peisistratos, whom ancient tradition credits with having issued a decree for the Homeric poems to be collected and written down in order to create standard editions of them.
In other words, Homer, the supposed great blind poet from the island of Chios, never existed. Homer is a legend, not a historical figure.