Professor Edith Hall
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We can call him Homer because that's what the ancient Greeks called him.
Well, I wish there was a simple answer to that.
Broadly speaking, we're talking about Ionia, that's Anatolia, that's the western seaboard of what's now Turkey.
There were many Greek populations there and the islands close to that seaboard, especially Chios, they have this Ionic dialect.
The Greeks had four different sub-dialects.
But it also seems to have had a period where it developed extensively in the mainland around Thebes and Euboea, where a different layer went in.
Now, this may sound complicated, but actually what it does is show us the richness and the pan-Hellenic, that is the all Greek contributions to it.
I think everybody wanted from every city state and every village in ancient Greece wanted to feel that they had contributed something.
And that's more apparent in the Iliad where you have the famous catalog of ships from every single town in Greece and the islands that went to Troy.
And you can quite imagine a local bard deliberately altering that every time to get their details in.
It's a truly pan-Hellenic text.
both in how it was created and in how it was used in later antiquity.
It's an ethnic text of this ethnos, by which I mean people who spoke Greek.
They define Greek identity primarily by language.
The Greek speakers everywhere are united.
They can live in the Black Sea.
They can live in Spain.
They can live in Marseille, which they founded.
But they are Greeks because they speak Greek.
And they learned Homer.
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