Was Homer a real person?

There is alot of debate about whether Homer, the poet who is thought to have lived c.750BC and author of the Iliad and Odyssey actually existed.  Some scholars believe that the Iliad and Odyssey are the joint works of a number of poets (names unknown) and many also believe the the Iliad has quite a different style to the Odyssey. 

Since I cannot modify the above post I will merely state that the family "Omer" also inhabited / ruled a good portion of Greece at one time during the Middle Ages!

Regards,

I'm not too sure that Opuslola really believes Fomenko's BS or that he just thoroughly enjoys being controversial.  He's rarely correct, but that doesn't seem to matter.

Dear redclay and Heliocles! I really don't won't to merely sound controversial! The controversy starts mostly with those who demean the works of his group! This not merely a justified or scientific dismissal or demaning, but one usually performed by someone who has not read one of his books on the subject!

Usually certain parts of the Fomenko theory is taken out of context, or they pick and choose which suppositions made by Fomenko, etal, which really stretch the boundaries of belief, and thereby dismiss the rest of the information! This is a perfect example of one "throwing the baby out with the bathwater!" Basically it would be similar to one critizing a writer of Englich literature in the 13th to 15th centuries, and demeaning the spelling, and verb usage, etc.! Thus every aspect of any of these works would merely be judged by todays standards of English spelling and grammar, etc.!

Would that be a fair method to judge all of the material?

Thus all I ask is for some "fairness?"

Please don't just label these theories as "Pseudo", just because someone else or some other group, has already done so? Like Wikipedia, etc.!

Many of you might well be very reticent about using Wiki as a source for a lot of things, but many of you will automatically take the same stance as Wikipedia when it comes to Fomenko or Velikovsky, etc.!

So, I would be happy to carry on a respectful discourse with anyone who actually reads the Fomenko material that now exists, and then wants to discuss certain parts with me!

Regards to all!

Jedc53! I do not remember in this thread whereby we were speaking about Achilles? You know, his "heel!", or weakness!

So, please rethink your post above, and tell us just what you really feel? (About Homer!)

Regards and welcome,

Indeed, Fomenko is a respected "scientists" if you consider mathematics as a "science?" And, I am sure most of you so believe! But, the oft aclaimed "mathematical scientist" is critical of "History" being considered as a "science!"   And, with good reason!

Sharrukin! Whether or not you respond or not, I will offer a rebuttal to your words above, concerning Mathematics as a Science!;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_science

It seems you do not know it all!

In your words I close;

"This is all I will say on the subject. It is already off-topic. If there is rebuttal, I will not respond. 'Nuff sed."

My regards,

Ec, wrote; "One historian believes Homer was a woman and I heard, on the Modern scholar Series, that the word Homer could have been a Mykanaen word for bard or story teller."

It seems that that conclusion was tough, since he was known as "the blind bard!"

If you please I would still tend to identify him as a member of the St. Omer family!

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LATIN%20LORDSHIPS%20IN%20GREECE.htm

Regards,

Edited by opuslola - 04-May-2010 at 15:49

opus, I have to respond to your rebuttal:

Originally posted by opuslola Whilst I might not agree, there does exist one current of thought that "Homer", which might well have been spelled as "h'Omer?", could be one of the family of the St. Omer's, of France / Belgium / Flanders, etc.! Of course this family does not seem to have been any great power until the middle-ages!