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THE ODYSSEY BY HOMER.

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The Odyssey by Homer. Oscar Rodolfo Velázquez. Questions about the author. 1) Is a single Homer possible?    There are different theories about Homer. The one that is the most considerable like true, is the one that says that Homer wrote The Oddysey along many years. For that reason, the book have some incomplete aspects. 2) What was the implicit reader in Homer? The greeks first, and in second term, all the people, because is a valuable sample of conscious self-knowledge, also mentioned in a social, religious context. 3) What was his expectations horizon?    I think the story is universal, because it stablished definitely the oral historic-religious story of a hero, Oddysseus, and the complex culture of the ancient Greek, with a lot of wisdom. Questions about the sources. 1) How much real time happened between the event and the book? More that 100 years because Homer wrote his story of The Oddysey from the historical event that h...