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And I'm reminded of a time in college when my roommate, who majored in classics, came home from class today and told me that they discussed a theory that the Il

And I'm reminded of a time in college when my roommate, who majored in classics, came home from class today and told me that they discussed a theory that the Iliad and Odyssey, were not actually written by Homer, but rather by a different place poet who happened to have the same name. "So they were actually written by Homer then?" I thought it hilarious, because the only identity of Homer I knew was the guy who wrote those works, so what difference di see it make? Identifiers can get into very sticky business sometimes.

dredmorbius 7y ago
GEPs -- Generico-Eponymic Paradoxes http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html "Homer's epics weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name." "Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name." American TV commercial for Smucker's (maker of jelly) --- "With a name like Smucker's, it's got to be good". at a fast-food restaurant: "You want the Coke or some other Coke?" Also: Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name": https://www.worldcat.org/title/shakespeares-plays-werent-written-by-him-but-by-someone-else-of-the-same-name-an-essay-on-intensionality-and-frame-based-knowledge-representation-systems/oclc/9476632 https://www.worldcat.org/title/shakespeares-plays-werent-wri... But wait, there's more! http://web.archive.org/web/20060913231744/http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060913231744/http://www.cs.indi...
fouc 7y ago
I heard there was a similar confusion with Jesus Christ, basically another prophet of the same name around the same time. One got killed on the cross but the other one lived, leading to the 'came back from death' rebirth story.
- gregw2 7y ago
  So the apostles who lived with him for several years were also just "confused"?
  - photojosh 7y ago
    Well, there is the story about how he appeared and talked to some of them during the course of a lengthy walk and they didn't recognise him until dinner time... ;)
- qwhelan 7y ago
  Yeah, there's quite a few prophets in the Bible by that same name. So many that they changed the language Jesus' name is rendered in to prevent confusion. Jesus is the Latin form of Yeshua/Joshua.

dredmorbius 7y ago

GEPs -- Generico-Eponymic Paradoxes http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html "Homer's epics weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name." "Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name." American TV commercial for Smucker's (maker of jelly) --- "With a name like Smucker's, it's got to be good". at a fast-food restaurant: "You want the Coke or some other Coke?" Also: Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name": https://www.worldcat.org/title/shakespeares-plays-werent-written-by-him-but-by-someone-else-of-the-same-name-an-essay-on-intensionality-and-frame-based-knowledge-representation-systems/oclc/9476632 https://www.worldcat.org/title/shakespeares-plays-werent-wri... But wait, there's more! http://web.archive.org/web/20060913231744/http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~tanaka/GEB/GEPs.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060913231744/http://www.cs.indi...

fouc 7y ago

I heard there was a similar confusion with Jesus Christ, basically another prophet of the same name around the same time. One got killed on the cross but the other one lived, leading to the 'came back from death' rebirth story.

gregw2 7y ago
So the apostles who lived with him for several years were also just "confused"?
- photojosh 7y ago
  Well, there is the story about how he appeared and talked to some of them during the course of a lengthy walk and they didn't recognise him until dinner time... ;)
qwhelan 7y ago
Yeah, there's quite a few prophets in the Bible by that same name. So many that they changed the language Jesus' name is rendered in to prevent confusion. Jesus is the Latin form of Yeshua/Joshua.