Homer and the Odyssey Another Point of View

British scholars have tended to believe in a single author of the Iliad and Odyssey more perhaps from right feeling than on a sound basis of argument. In his article Mr Casson frankly begins by 'begging two separate questions'-that Homer wrote the Odyssey and that he was a single poet. The first is not so welcome an answer as the second. Mr Casson is not of course concerned to argue about either and only mentions in passing one argument-the oblique method of description in 'both' the Iliad and the Odyssey. Examples of it he calls 'hints' that make it easy for him to disregard half the contro-versy about Homer. The purpose of his article is, however, different, to show that Homer visited Ithaka. The aim of the present one is not primarily to reply to his main thesis except by the way, but rather to supplement it and suggest in outline another point of view than that implied by him

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