Homer and the Oral Traditions

This documentary shows that it is possible to transmit orally a poem as extense as the Illiad (14,000 verses). As evidence, a contemporary Irish bard is presented. The study of Homer is one of the oldest topics in scholarship, dating back to antiquity. The aims and achievements of Homeric studies have changed over the course of the millennia. In the last few centuries, they have revolved around the process by which the Homeric poems came into existence and were transmitted over time to us, first orally a