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=245    $$a Great Books of  The Western World's 07392
=260    $$a Chicago $b Britannica $c 2005
=300    $$a v, 541p.;
=520    $$a Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 3 served the history, philosophy and works of Homer. Homer is the name given to the purported author of the early Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is now believed by Classicists (especially after the studies by Milman Parry) that they were composed by illiterate aoidoi (rhapsodes) in an oral tradition in the 8th or 7th century BC. However, there remains much argument between 'analysts' and 'unitarians' over whether the Iliad and the Odyssey were the product of one man or of many. Homer's works begin the Western Canon and are universally praised for their poetic genius. By convention, the compositions are also often taken to initiate the period of Classical Antiquity.