The association of the name
of Homer with the authorship of the Iliad and the
Odyssey is a Greek literary invention (probably from
the Ionian Coast of Asia Minor) of several centuries after
these epics were already well known throughout the Hellenic
World. Thus, despite the Iliad and Odyssey
being works deeply rooted in the Hellenic soul (somewhat
similar to the Torah with Judaism or the Gospels
with Christianity) the Greeks were ignorant about their
origins. Today, modern information derived from various
interdisciplinary investigations allows us to make well-reasoned
inferences about the origins of these works.
