Open AccessHomero sob o olhar crítico da tradição
Author(s) -
Jovelina Maria Ramos de Souza
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.1..96-113
Subject(s) - ambiguity , philosophy , literature , humanities , art , linguistics
This article takes up the controversy concerning poets and thinkers against Homer and aims at showing that, in fact, both respect and disapproval towards Homer seem to be recurrent amongthem. Excerpts of Pindar, Hecateus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophanes and Isocrates are analyzed, to show that this ambiguity regarding the poet existed permanently, long before even Plato's criticisms.