We basically know nothing about who Homer was or whether he really wrote both stories. There are only a few survivng accounts about him, but they’re all conflicting and could all be bogus.
Maybe he really did write both books. Maybe one but not the other. Maybe these stories were first passed down orally and he was just the first to write them down. Maybe he never existed at all.
The stories have a certain style of writing that in different ways showed techniques people used to use to remember their songs and folklore, like specific alliterations. This aligns with the theory that it’s all oral history, told and retold over many a year.
I’ve read it’s theorized he might have existed and wrote the core of the story, but that over time, other authors expanded the story making it what it is today.
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(Homer seeing Xhamster for the first time)
Did Homer exist? I thought he was like a ghost actor where multiple people write under his name
We basically know nothing about who Homer was or whether he really wrote both stories. There are only a few survivng accounts about him, but they’re all conflicting and could all be bogus.
Maybe he really did write both books. Maybe one but not the other. Maybe these stories were first passed down orally and he was just the first to write them down. Maybe he never existed at all.
Maybe Homer was the books we read along the way.
I’m very sleep deprived rn
The stories have a certain style of writing that in different ways showed techniques people used to use to remember their songs and folklore, like specific alliterations. This aligns with the theory that it’s all oral history, told and retold over many a year.
The stories might be from an oral tradition, but someone wrote it down for the first time
And it was likely a unique version of the story.
There’s just no concensus on if Homer was an actual person, or a collective of poets calling themselves Homer
I’ve read it’s theorized he might have existed and wrote the core of the story, but that over time, other authors expanded the story making it what it is today.
well christopher nolan would have hated Homer’s the odyssey
Yeah like Ancient Greece didn’t have their own femboys…. It’s not a new concept
doh!
He did write multiple hymns to Artemis…
Community notes: “Homer was blind”
Witch: I only reveal who people really are
Homer: mmmm forbidden pork