Excerpt from Homer: The Odyssey
The poem of the Odyssey is treated in these pages as the work of a single author, and that author the same as the composer of the Iliad. It would be manifestly out of place, in a volume which does not profess to be written for critical scholars, to discuss a question on which they are so far from being agreed. But it may be satisfactory to assure the reader Who has neither leisure nor inclination to enter into the controversy, that in accepting, as we do, the Odyssey as from the same Homer to whom we owe the Tale of Troy, he may fortify himself by the authority of many aecom plished scholars who have carefully examined the ques tion. Though none of the incidents related in the Iliad are distinctly referred to in the Odyssey - a point strongly urged by those who would assign the poems to different authors - and therefore the one cannot fairly be regarded as a sequel to the other, yet there is no important discrepancy, either in the facts previously assumed, or in the treatment Of such characters as appear upon the scene in both; A. 0. Vol 11.
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