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IN DEFENCE OF HOMER

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by Colin Hardie
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
2-The Poet
In recent broadcasts Professor E. R. Dodds advanced arguments for the multiple authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Mr. Hardie believes that they were composed by one and the same poet. In this talk he gives his view of Homer's creative genius and the way in which he came to compose his poems.

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