Was Homer a Liar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3896641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Chadwick (0000-0003-2656-8211, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 77 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 1972-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219217202007701 |
| OpenAlex | W1989769530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
une tradition à la fois antique et directe, ininterrompue, orale, deformée, méconnaissable et vivante.M. ProustThis is a deliberately provocative title, chosen in an iconoclastic moment, when I was annoyed by reading yet another book, in which the author prostrates himself abjectly before the altar of Homer the historian. The worship of this false god has reached such proportions that every writer on Mycenaean Greece devotes a great deal of space to what Homer says, and spends page after page trying to reconcile the Homeric account with the archaeological evidence. The idea that Homer can tell us about the Mycenaean Age dies hard; it is time to administer the coup de grâce
Criminology · Psychoanalysis · Classical Antiquity Studies · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |