Tag: homer
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On the Homeric Question
The rising tide of scientific investigation, everywhere pervading our age, begs us, once more, to pose the question of the authenticity of Homer. This question comes about as a need to discover the sole source for the production of the Homeric works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Could they have been the creation of one man? Or […]
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Political Philosophy in the Iliad
Book Two of the Iliad is the most politically revealing passage found in Homeric literature. Recall our heroes, the disparate Achaean princes feuding with one another. Despite being united under the arrogant leadership of Agamemnon, who is regularly deemed “the shepherd of the people,” the Achaeans are squabbling over property. The Achaeans have banded together to […]
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