Subject: Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys"

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:08:01 EST

In a message dated 11/11/2001 12:10:09 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] 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.