- Homeric question
- Homeric question nounThe question of whether a single author wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, disputed by some authorities• • •Main Entry: ↑Homeric
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Homeric Question — The Homeric Question concerns the doubt and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey , and their historicity. It has its roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period, but… … Wikipedia
Homeric scholarship — is the study of Homeric epic, especially the two large surviving epics, the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline of classical studies, but the subject is one of the very oldest topics in all scholarship or science,… … Wikipedia
Homeric Hymns — The thirty three anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, Homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meter dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey , use many similar formulas and… … Wikipedia
Homeric epics — In the field of classics, the term Homeric epics refers specifically to the Iliad and Odyssey, two epics attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Ancient Greece s tradition of oral poetry makes Homer s identity and role as an author of these… … Wikipedia
Homer — This article is about the Greek poet Homer and the works attributed to him. For other meanings, see Homer (disambiguation). Homeric redirects here. For other uses, see Homeric (disambiguation). See also: English translations of Homer … Wikipedia
Oral tradition — A Kyrgyz manaschi See also: Oral tradition and the historical Jesus Oral tradition and oral lore is cultural material and traditions transmitted orally from one generation to another.[1] … Wikipedia
Historicity of the Iliad — The extent of the historical basis of the Iliad has been debated for some time. Educated Greeks of the fifth century continued to accept the truth of human events depicted in the Iliad , even as philosophical scepticism was undermining faith in… … Wikipedia
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Oral-formulaic composition — The theory of oral formulaic composition originated in the scholarly study of epic poetry, being developed in the second quarter of the twentieth century. It seeks to explain two related issues: the mechanism whereby some oral poets are able to… … Wikipedia
Catalogue of Ships — The Catalogue of Ships (νεῶν κατάλογος; neōn katalogos ) [The Catalogue of Ships is the original that supplied us our category term, catalogue .] is a passage in Book 2 of Homer s Iliad (2.494 759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army … Wikipedia
