Homer’s Critics
.Zoilos (3 syl.), the grammarian, was called “Homer’s Scourge” (Homēromastix), because he assailed the Iliad and Odyssey with merciless severity.
As some deny that Shakespeare is the author of the plays which are generally ascribed to him, so Wolf, a German critic (1759–1824), in his Prolegomena ad Homērum, denies that Homer was the author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
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