Homeric Catalogue of Shapes

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"In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author, but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singer-poets, swathes of assumptions about the poems and their 'author' were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be re-evaluated through a new lens"--

subjects: Homer,  Art and literature,  Iliad (Homer),  Odyssey (Homer),  Classical Reception (Classical Studies),  Art & Visual Culture,  Ancient Epic (Classical Studies),  Classical Reception in Visual Arts (Classical Studies)