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1. CalChr+Y8[view] [source] 2023-07-17 14:34:35
>>agomez+(OP)
The Homeric Question [1] generally centers on whether the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by primarily one person (Unitarian) or by different people (Analytic). Butler has another theory, that the Odyssey was written by one person, a woman in Sicily, which he published in the The Authoress of the Odyssey [2]. Basically, Butler was describing the Odyssey as fan fiction, as a Mary Sue [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Authoress_of_the_Odyssey

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

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2. rustym+iq[view] [source] 2023-07-17 15:57:54
>>CalChr+Y8
There's a famous quip that the person who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey was not Homer, but a different man with the same name.
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