Excerpt from The Origin of the Homeric Poems: A Lecture The following lecture was delivered in 1860 in Vienna, and has passed through four editions in Germany. It has been recognized by many schol ars as presenting in brief space and with fairness the points involved in the discussion, and the prog ress which has been made towards a solution of the problem. I have been led to translate it main ly by the fact, as I suppose it to be, that there is no work in English which gives any just idea of the difficulties in the way of accepting the Homeric poems as the production of one poet, unless it be the large and expensive work of Mure, which de fends the unity of authorship. It seemed desira ble that there should be accessible in English a partial statement of the reasons which have led so many German scholars to doubt the unity of au thorship of the poems. Besides, the notes contain a very valuable, though not of course a complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.