Was Homer Real?

Greek Reporter ^ | March 8, 2023 | Caleb Howells

[gundog]

[beethovenfan]

D’OH !

[AnAmericanMother]

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took -- the same as me!

The market-girls an' fishermen,
The shepherds an' the sailors, too,
They 'eard old songs turn up again,
But kep' it quiet -- same as you!

They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed.
They didn't tell, nor make a fuss,
But winked at 'Omer down the road,
An' 'e winked back -- the same as us!

[nickcarraway]

I’m glad we have some Freepers who know Kipling.

[PGR88]

In the words of Jordan Peterson: He’s more real than real.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[DIRTYSECRET]

Woman who waited 21 years for her husband to come back. If you believe that you’ll believe anything.

[ETCM]

This reads like something written by ChatGPT.

[ConservativeInPA]

Well, I never saw him. 😂

[Big Red Badger]

👍

[AnAmericanMother]

Consider the low quality of the Suitors, and that they were only after her money!

I'd unweave that tapestry every night, too!

[AnAmericanMother]

He was a Great Man. A bon mot for every occasion.

[healy61]

Thank you. I thought that was a Kipling work.

[Falconspeed]

“a lack of contemporary evidence” casts suspicion on Buddha, actor in the kohraan, and King Arthur. Contemporary evidence gives 100% support to the existence of the Lord’s resurrection. Homer? He was real, according to Plato.

[PIF]

One historian has made a different kind of argument. Adam Nicolson argues that the Iliad and the Odyssey show signs of originating from about 1000 years earlier than when Homer is supposed to have lived. This would mean that Homer cannot have been their author. Since Homer’s only contribution to history is as the supposed author of those poems, that would take away his historical standing.

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Back in the day, we were taught that Homer wrote down existing oral stories - that he is believed to have actually written them is new to me. I’ll stick with what I was taught back when they actually taught history.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But remember, when she walked among the suitors, her beauty was such that....
“Their knees smote together. Each wished to lay with her.”

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics.

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[SunkenCiv]

[17th Miss Regt]

You don’t believe in Homer? You are a Homerphobe!