Why do many modern scholars believe the epics attributed to Homer are based on oral legends?

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Modern scholars believe the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on oral legends, but the epics are often attributed to a storyteller named Homer. We have only a few clues about who Homer might have been. Herodotus was a Greek writer who lived in the fifth century before the Common Er

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Modern scholars believe the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on oral legends, but the epics are often attributed to a storyteller named Homer. ... There are only a few clues about who Homer might have been. Herodotus was a Greek writer who lived in the fifth century before the Common Era

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