http://wildhunt.org/blog/2006/12/was-homer-woman.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2006/12/was-homer-woman.html/comment-page-1#comment-714 Anonymous Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:26:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2006/12/was-homer-a-woman.html#comment-714 Robert Graves wrote a novel (I think the title was "Homer's Daughter") a very long time ago about Nausicaa, the princess who rescued Odysseus, being the author of The Odyssey. So 'Homer was a woman' is not such a new idea as all that. Robert Graves wrote a novel (I think the title was “Homer’s Daughter”) a very long time ago about Nausicaa, the princess who rescued Odysseus, being the author of The Odyssey. So ‘Homer was a woman’ is not such a new idea as all that.

]]> http://wildhunt.org/blog/2006/12/was-homer-woman.html/comment-page-1#comment-713 Luna Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:46:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2006/12/was-homer-a-woman.html#comment-713 I think we should not read the text any differently in regards to the author's gender. There seems to be an assumption that women will somehow "do something" to the text that will be "different" with all the mysterious mumbo-jumbo that goes with such thoughts. Women are just as able to inherit and express the same cultural values as men. However, I don't believe that Homer was likely a woman. I think we should not read the text any differently in regards to the author’s gender. There seems to be an assumption that women will somehow “do something” to the text that will be “different” with all the mysterious mumbo-jumbo that goes with such thoughts. Women are just as able to inherit and express the same cultural values as men. However, I don’t believe that Homer was likely a woman.

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