The Iliad Quotes

“Martin West posits a more nuanced model in which a literate poet dictated the Iliad to scribes around 700 BCE, effectively blending oral performance with written fixation, a theory gaining traction for its balanced approach to the evidence.11”
― Homer, The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations

“Analysts, following the tradition established by F.A. Wolf, argue that narrative discrepancies, such as inconsistent divine interventions or abrupt transitions (notably Book 10’s Doloneia), suggest multiple poets whose works were later unified into the epics we now possess.”
― Homer, The Iliad: Deluxe Edition Featuring The Achilleid and Original Illustrations