Homer (the poet ) was a Woman?

@Astarte (812)
Italy
December 22, 2006 9:30am CST
Recent studies presuppose that Homer (the father of Odyssey) was a Woman and not a man. What do you think about?
4 responses
@ESKARENA1 (18260)
23 Dec 06
the way in which Homer romanticized war seems to be the only evidence put forward for this but yet all the first world war poets did this and they were exclusivly male so i dont see why we should re assign homer
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@Astarte (812)
• Italy
23 Dec 06
Yes, but these scholars sais that Homer was the one woman poet in Greece and it was hide because was improper.
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@ESKARENA1 (18260)
23 Dec 06
yes ive read the details i just dont find it credible
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• South Africa
23 Dec 06
I have read an article about that, which points out the romaticised impressions of war, and the fact that most of the locations in the odyssey seem inspired by a fairly small area around a Greek island. I have also heard the theory that the Illiad and the Odyssey were written by different people.
@Astarte (812)
• Italy
23 Dec 06
I have heard the same.. Maybe, Homer was a "title" for more than one poet.
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@Tisifone (639)
• Italy
23 Dec 06
Being some arts and sciences forbidden to women at that time it I wouldn't wonder if he was a she.
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@urbandekay (18278)
8 Apr 13
Feminist and gay revisionist history is very fashionable, unfortunately, we have abandoned reason and, academically pursued fashion. More has been lost than has been gained and bogus pseudo-intellectual ideas, such as 'post-modernism' which were thoroughly discredited in the days of ancient Greece have come to pre-dominate discussion all the best, urban