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Na Antiguidade, muitos Gregos consideraram que o autor da Ilíada, da Odisseia e de outros tantos textos congéneres fora um poeta cego, oriundo talvez de Quios e chamado Homero. Dele não sabemos nada hoje, mas a Antiguidade pensou saber bastante; assim, no seguimento de uma tradição antiga, nascida talvez de um equívoco, mas que contava também com uma forte componente nacionalista (das recém nascidas cidades da época arcaica, que reclamavam, com orgulho, ser a terra pátria do mais divino dos poetas) construiu-se uma(s) biografia(s) para Homero. Essa(s) suposta(s) biografia(s) conhecêmo-la(s) por um conjunto de textos de redacção aprentemente tardia, as chamadas Vitae Homeri, cujas informações principais apresentamos aqui. Quanto dessas informações poderá encerrar algo de histórico, não podemos confirmá-lo.
In Classical Antiquity, the Greeks considered that the author of Iliad, of Odyssey, and of many other similar texts was a blind poet, possibly from Chios and named Homer. We do not know anything about him today, but the Antiquity thought they knew him well. This led to many biographies about Homer that followed an old tradition, that was possibly born of mis readings, but that also relied on a strong nationalist component, of the new born cities os the archaic age that proudly clamied to be a homeland of the more divine poets. We know of these so-called biographies troungh a collection of texts from a later period, called Vitae Homeri, whose main information we present in this article. We can not confirm whether or not this information is historical.
In Classical Antiquity, the Greeks considered that the author of Iliad, of Odyssey, and of many other similar texts was a blind poet, possibly from Chios and named Homer. We do not know anything about him today, but the Antiquity thought they knew him well. This led to many biographies about Homer that followed an old tradition, that was possibly born of mis readings, but that also relied on a strong nationalist component, of the new born cities os the archaic age that proudly clamied to be a homeland of the more divine poets. We know of these so-called biographies troungh a collection of texts from a later period, called Vitae Homeri, whose main information we present in this article. We can not confirm whether or not this information is historical.
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PINHEIRO, Ana Elias - Homero. Tentativas de (re)construção biográfica na antiguidade. Máthesis. Viseu. ISSN 0872-0215. Nº 14 (2005), p. 111-128.
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa