Homer

Homer is the name that Antiquity gave to the author of the two great Greek epics, and the Ancients called him blind. His very existence is debated, some seeing in him an individual, others the outcome of a long oral tradition. The American philologist Milman Parry showed in his thesis defended in Paris in 1928 that the repeated epithets formed a system used to improvise verse, then went to test his hypothesis from 1933 to 1935 among the singers of Yugoslavia.

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