Homero

European literature was born with the Iliad and the Odyssey, two poems that the Greeks attributed to Homer and that have had an immense influence on later literature. The fascination for both works has reached our times practically intact, in which we continue to ask ourselves questions and hypotheses about their authorship and the circumstances surrounding their composition. In this masterful introduction to Homer and his work, Bowra analyzes the findings of disciplines such as linguistics, archaeology, and textual criticism to resolve both narrative and non-narrative questions related to the process of creating these two seminal poems.