Ancient accounts of Homer
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| - | + | The '''ancient accounts of Homer''' include many passages in archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors that mention or allude to [[Homer]], and ten biographies of Homer, often referred to as ''Lives''. | |
| - | The '''Homeric Question''' concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of [[Homer]], the authorship of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey]]'', and [[Historicity of the Iliad|historicity, especially of the ''Iliad'']]. The subject has its roots in [[classical antiquity]] and the [[scholarship]] of the [[Hellenistic period]], but has flourished among [[Homeric scholarship|Homeric scholars]] of the 19th and 20th centuries. | + | |
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| - | The main subtopics of the Homeric Question are: | + | |
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| - | *"Who is Homer?" | + | |
| - | *"Are the epics of multiple or single authorship?" | + | |
| - | *"By whom, when, where, and under what circumstances were the poems composed?" | + | |
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| - | To these questions the possibilities of modern [[textual criticism]] and archaeological answers have added a few more: | + | |
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| - | *"How reliable is the tradition embodied in the Homeric poems?" | + | |
| - | *"How old are the oldest elements in Homeric poetry which can be dated with certainty?" | + | |
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| - | *[[Homer]] | + | * [[Homer]] |
| - | *[[Homeric scholarship]] | + | * [[Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus)]] |
| - | *[[Ancient accounts of Homer]] | + | |
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The ancient accounts of Homer include many passages in archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors that mention or allude to Homer, and ten biographies of Homer, often referred to as Lives.
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