Throughout history, the Iliad has been attributed to Homer. The name Homer has been attached to every work of existing writing from ancient Greece up to the age of Virgil. Homer was a writer of sacred verse. One major theory of development of the Iliad is that it is a written version of centuries of oral-tradition stories and songs. Homer, then, could quite likely be the name of the tradition (one created over centuries) itself of the telling and performing of the Iliad. Or, perhaps, Homer is the symbolic representation of audience expectations for the performance of the Iliad in part and in whole. There are no records of an individual Homer. The only record, then, is the Iliad itself. Within the Iliad, we encounter a society that survives in great part on its ability to destroy and take from other societies.
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