CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., April 7, 2014 â Enjoy signature items from 12 Cape Girardeau restaurants and businesses participating in the âTaste of Capeâ restaurant hop, benefitting Southeast Missouri State Universityâs Department of Theatre and Dance Tuesday, April 22.
That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odysseyâso much may be said to be probable. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the worldâs literary artists.
In 1897, Samuel Butler scandalized Victorian England by claiming that a woman wrote The Odyssey.. In Rediscovering Homer, Andrew Dalby goes further -- arguing that a woman probably composed both The Odyssey and The Iliad.. These two epic poems, written around 650 B.C., are traditionally attributed to Homer. The truth is, we know virtually nothing about the poet or poets who penned them.