The Age of Homer
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13 Considering, therefore, the strong evidence we have before us, there is the greatest probability in favour of the view that our present Homer is the modernized version of more ancient poems by some poet of the time of Plato, in the same way as the older poems of Chaucer have been modernized by Dryden and Wordsworth, and as Tennyson has given modern versions in his Idylls of the King of the older poems of King Arthur and the Round Table.
The Iliad of Homer, we have every reason to believe, is... a pure myth, or as Mr. Grote expresses it, " essentially a legend, " a composition solely inspired by the muse : Achilles' wrath : Heavenly Goddess sing.
Historic Ilium, if we admit the existence of such a town, was only a peg used by Homer to hang his poem on. " Troy herself, " says Philostratus, "would never have been had not Homer lived, he was really the founder of Troy. " The Troy or Ilion of the Homeric poems was, as Mr. Paley writes, "more or less a mythical city. " Professor Jebb also shares the same view.
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13 Considering, therefore, the strong evidence we have before us, there is the greatest probability in favour of the view that our present Homer is the modernized version of more ancient poems by some poet of the time of Plato, in the same way as the older poems of Chaucer have been modernized by Dryden and Wordsworth, and as Tennyson has given modern versions in his Idylls of the King of the older poems of King Arthur and the Round Table.
The Iliad of Homer, we have every reason to believe, is... a pure myth, or as Mr. Grote expresses it, " essentially a legend, " a composition solely inspired by the muse : Achilles' wrath : Heavenly Goddess sing.
Historic Ilium, if we admit the existence of such a town, was only a peg used by Homer to hang his poem on. " Troy herself, " says Philostratus, "would never have been had not Homer lived, he was really the founder of Troy. " The Troy or Ilion of the Homeric poems was, as Mr. Paley writes, "more or less a mythical city. " Professor Jebb also shares the same view.
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