Word: homer
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Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...
...Iliad of Homer," by W. C. Bryant...
Chapman's Homer. First complete edition...
...Homer Howells Harbour...
...Homer Howells Harbour...