Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys"

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/11/2001 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time, cowan@ccil.org writes:

The trouble is that Homer is simply he who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad,
and the Odyssey and the Iliad are the works of Homer.  We have
no independent notion of Homer, as we do of most authors.

And "he" was probably corporate in the case of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and largely feminine in the latter case.