It's sort of interesting that nobody in ancient Greece believed this to my knowledge, which is probably because it is bullshit. There actually probably was a poet named Homer who composed the basics of the poems.
----- Original Message ---- From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
Aristocratic privilege? Homer? What could that even mean? 'Homer', as Giambattista Vico explained more than three hundred years ago, was not an historic individual, but the collective name for a folktale teller. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk