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On a slightly different topic, I was reading about other greek epics beyond Homer, and I knew there were things like the Theban Cycle and a broader Trojan War c
by empath-nirvana 3y ago
On a slightly different topic, I was reading about other greek epics beyond Homer, and I knew there were things like the Theban Cycle and a broader Trojan War cycle, and it turns out that some of them may have never existed, they almost certainly weren't any kind of "cycle", the ones that did exist weren't very good, and that they may never have been written down at all outside of summaries.
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2020/02/epic-cycle.html https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2020/02/epic-cycle.html
- digging 3y ago> that they may never have been written down at all outside of summaries. That is normal for preclassical literature. Even the works of Homer weren't standardized until several centuries after they were created. > some of them may have never existed Actually, this is not uncommon for anything ancient, too. I believe most scholars doubt the existence of, for example, Homer himself.
- mordechai9000 3y agoIsn't there an old joke that says the works of Homer were actually written by another man of the same name? The joke being that Homer is somewhat apocryphal already.