5/24/2023 0 Comments Homer the iliad the odysseyThese song traditions were multiform they did not exist in a fixed form until very late in their evolution. In its earliest phases, this system included the song traditions of the (now lost) epics known collectively as the Epic Cycle and still further epic traditions to which the Iliad and Odyssey sometimes allude, such as the voyage of the Argo. The Iliad and Odyssey-attributed in antiquity to an almost certainly legendary poet named Homer-are synoptic representatives of an entire system of traditional songs that developed over many hundreds of years, and possibly thousands of years.
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