By Harold Bloom (Editor)
Homer, writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is the earliest of Greek authors whose works survived. either works are ideally suited types of epic poetry and feature asserted a profound impression at the heritage of Western literature. This quantity deals an entire severe portrait of Homer. This identify, Homer, a part of Chelsea condominium Publishers’ sleek serious perspectives sequence, examines the foremost works of Homer via full-length severe essays via specialist literary critics. additionally, this identify encompasses a brief biography on Homer, a chronology of the author’s existence, and an introductory essay written through Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale college.
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The truth (aletheia) that has always been associated with this passage becomes “that which is remembered in the tradition,” an “unforgetfulness” that is a remembering only of traditional words, not of real deeds. Such a definition of poetic truth would not necessarily exclude that many of the events narrated might be believed to have some relationship to real past events. Both factual and nonfactual information could be preserved in the tradition, but the poet and his audience would never be interested in sorting out the one from the other, nor capable of it.
Il. 4:20–21) But the narrator may also tell us in so many words the plan that has taken shape within a character’s mind: This seemed to his mind to be the best plan, to go first among men to Nestor, Neleus’s son, to see if he could devise some faultless scheme with him which would be a defense against evils for all the Danaans. (Il. 17–20) Other kinds of decisions reached but not expressed openly can be laid bare by the narrator: At once war became sweeter to them than to return in the hollow ships to their dear fatherland.
This interpretation, however attractive it may be to those of certain philosophical persuasions, does not fit well with our two model Homeric passages. The contrast of the Muses’ knowledge with the kleos (report) available aurally to mortals in the Catalog-invocation makes it unlikely that Homer appeals here to the tradition alone and not to a past that is felt to be entirely real. In the oral culture that we presume to have been Homer’s, it would be virtually impossible to contrast knowledge of a traditional story with the hearing of mere kleos.