This discovery soon led the German scholar Friedrich August Wolf to argue that the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we possess had not been fixed in writing until relatively late.

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Close textual analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as examination of historical evidence and study of how such works are transmitted in a culture, logically pointed to the works being the output of unknown authors over a very long period time.

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Ancient Greece and Rome are remembered for the rulers who conquered the known world, but also for the Odyssey and the Iliad, for a forum and a coliseum.

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By his knowledge of the Odyssey and the Iliad he brings to bear this keen sense of what's fake and what's not and what endures as pain and what's superfluous.

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The rhythm and rhyme helped aid the memories of those who passed along the stories, a process that also gave us the beautiful imagery in the Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, the Vedas, the Bible, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and many others.

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