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Does anyone here actually believe Parry "debunked" Homeric authorship?
| chestnut office | 11/10/25 |
| Rusted shrine | 11/10/25 |
| chestnut office | 11/10/25 |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: chestnut office He definitely put together strong evidence of how oral traditions work and showed evidence of how epithets and formulae work in homeric texts. but that doesn't mean Homer wasn't the "author". It is already known he composed the epics at a late stage in a long oral tradition. the evidence suggests it was composed by someone who used classical epithets, themes etc but it was an unusually talented performer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795727&forum_id=2Vannesa#49417494) |
Date: November 10th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: Rusted shrine You enjoy silencing women? Samuel Butler proved Homer was a woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795727&forum_id=2Vannesa#49417510) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: chestnut office I thought the argument was that the Odyssey was written by a woman from Sicily, but not anything else (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795727&forum_id=2Vannesa#49417520) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: Blathering shivering location don't forget Shakespeare was a WOC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795727&forum_id=2Vannesa#49417542) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 2:00 PM Author: swashbuckling stage national security agency Was Homer the composer of the epics or the first guy to write them down (or to have them written down)?
I recall from reading the Odyssey that some of the books seemed very different in character from the others, as if they had been written/told by a different composer. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 2:05 PM Author: chestnut office This is just my personal opinion, but I think the evidence suggests that the Iliad and Oyssey were composed orally, but at a late stage in a long oral tradition likely by an unusually gifted performer at a point where writing was just becoming available in Greece. The poems feel "stitched" from oral formulae but also show a degree of narrative unity and thematic design thats rare in purely oral works. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795727&forum_id=2Vannesa#49417567) |