Homer and History
reflections on Homeric poetry for the historian's craft
Keywords:
Homer, Epic Poetry, Ancient HistoryAbstract
This article discusses the issue of authorship and composition of Homeric poems, based on the so-called “Homeric questions”, and addresses the specific literary characteristics of the Iliad and the Odyssey, on which the bases rest for a historically conscious approach to the typology of discourse presented by such sources and the socio-cultural contexts of production and transmission of the Homeric epic. The text explores the oral origins of epics, philological work on the formulaic stylistics of poems and how these poetic characteristics influence the interpretation and work of historians regarding the works. In summary, the complex relationship between Literature and History in Homer's work is investigated, considering both the metrical-formular and literary aspects and the possibility of finding historical traces in epic poems.
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