Excerpt from Homeric Society: A Sociological Study of the Iliad and Odyssey
The following study starts out from two main working-hypotheses; first, that the evidence of Homer concerning the "Homeric Age" is direct and accurate, and second, that this evidence has to do with a single culture-epoch and, in the main, with a single people. Primarily, the Iliad and Odyssey give the impression of spontaneity and an entire freedom from artificiality or historical "reconstruction" there also appear to be no striking incongruities between the two epics or between parts of the same epic. In the course of this study, it is hoped that further grounds for these hypotheses may appear, and that the position taken, in regarding the Iliad and Odyssey as direct documentary evidence, may be further justified.
The treatment of Homeric social factors and tendencies has been, first of all, systematic; based upon sociological categories which owe their formulation to a comparative study of human societies and their development.
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