The Poet as Scientist: Did Homer know that he wrote the Iliad and Odyssey? Is there any record of him discussing his authorship while he was alive?

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, June 24, 2024

Did Homer know that he wrote the Iliad and Odyssey? Is there any record of him discussing his authorship while he was alive?

There is no record of Homer at all, other than the Iliad and the Odyssey. We don’t really know if he even existed. We don’t really know when he lived, exactly. He may be a mythological figure, or a composite figure. Some people think a man wrote the Iliad, and a woman wrote the Odyssey. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Did-Homer-know-that-he-wrote-the-Iliad-and-Odyssey-Is-there-any-record-of-him-discussing-his-authorship-while-he-was-alive

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