Homeric Questions [Paperback]

The Homeric Question has vexed scholars for centuries. Who was Homer, when and where did he live and was there more than one author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?. In this lively and innovative investiagtion the author, using the evidence of comparative linguistics and anthropology, puts forward a model which suggests that the poems as we know them today emerged from an evolutionary process in which composition, performance and the passage of time interacted. An important and provocative re-examination of the oral tradition.The Homeric Question has vexed scholars for centuries. Who was Homer, when and where did he live and was there more than one author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?.