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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 question — noun The question of whether a single author wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, disputed by some authorities • • • Main Entry: ↑Homeric …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• The Cantos — by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto . Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.… …   Wikipedia

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• The Gentleman Usher — is an early seventeenth century stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman that was first published in 1606. It is noted as the only play in which Chapman takes a positive view of women.Date and publication The Gentleman Usher was entered… …   Wikipedia

• The Creators — Infobox Book name = The Creators author = Daniel Boorstin country = United States language = English cover artist = Bernard Klein series = genre = Historical publisher = Random House release date = 1992 media type = Print (hardcover pages = 811… …   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

• The Singer of Tales — is a book by Albert Lord that discusses the oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic. It was published in 1960.ummaryThe book is divided into two parts. In the first, the author… …   Wikipedia

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