[SunkenCiv]

[BipolarBob]

Homer is a gentle and misunderstood man who happens to drink Duff beer.

[SunkenCiv]

The very late Samuel Butler was of the opinion that the Odyssey was written by a woman. Since it is really just a romance novel from ancient times, I find that plausible. So did the late (and probably better known) Robert Graves. Butler's view was that a princess living on or near Sicily (in one of the "Greater Greece" colonies wrote the Odyssey and used various sites and sights familiar to her from her surroundings to cook up the various trials and tribulations of Odysseus.

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[SunkenCiv]

the Odyssey was written by a woman:

Google

the authoress of the Odyssey:

Google

[SunkenCiv]

The Odyssey of Homer
translated by Samuel Butler
(Preface)

This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled "The Authoress of the Odyssey", which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole "Odyssey" in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.

[Question_Assumptions]

Well, we already know that Homer was supposed to be handicapped (blind) so why not just claim that he was black and lesbian and hit all the bases at once?

[SunkenCiv]

So, I guess this idea is a boner?

[rimshot!]

[Valpal1]

There is no direct evidence of the poet's identity and therefore no justification for the customary assumption that the two epics were composed by a man."

But

Women have a long tradition worldwide as makers of oral literature

Am I the only one that sees the contradiction here? Oral tradition identifies a blind male poet called Homer as the author, so I guess the traditional makers and keepers of oral tradition (women) got it wrong.

We're supposed to be in awe of the wisdom and amazing accuracy of oral tradition, except when the liberals want to rewrite it to fit the feminist agenda.

[Lurker]

You knew this was coming.

L

[F.J. Mitchell]

Is Homer's Gender of any importance to anyone except Homer.

[Dustbunny]

An epic battle on Homer's gender

Guess it is possible that Homer was female. I personally doubt it.

Possibly he/she was a hermaphrodite. LOL

[mo]

the next thing you know, some "scholar" will have decided Homer was homo........

[Tribune7]

He's a he.

D'uh

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[deadrock]

Sounds far fetched.

There aren't a run OF CAPITALIZED WORDS randomly placed throughout. And EACH LINE isn't ended with a multitude of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!