The stories have a certain style of writing that in different ways showed techniques people used to use to remember their songs and folklore, like specific alliterations. This aligns with the theory that it’s all oral history, told and retold over many a year.
The stories have a certain style of writing that in different ways showed techniques people used to use to remember their songs and folklore, like specific alliterations. This aligns with the theory that it’s all oral history, told and retold over many a year.
The stories might be from an oral tradition, but someone wrote it down for the first time
And it was likely a unique version of the story.
There’s just no concensus on if Homer was an actual person, or a collective of poets calling themselves Homer