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To: nickcarraway
No, I think that "Homer" is a semi-legendary figure to whom the Iliad and Odyssey are attributed by legend and convention. I think the consensus is that the works as we know them now were collated from bits and pieces composed at different times from multiple sources - and whoever (individual or group effort) collated them is now lost to history.
6 posted on 08/19/2026 8:22:10 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck; nickcarraway

Then maybe it was written by AI: Attican Individuals.


7 posted on 08/19/2026 8:44:53 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ek_hornbeck
"I think that "Homer" is a semi-legendary figure to whom the Iliad and Odyssey are attributed by legend and convention."

Similarly, and perhaps more ironically, Aesop himself, may have just been a fable.

19 posted on 08/19/2026 10:54:08 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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