Assertion: homer's iliad | /r/HasProperty | existed as oral tradition
Facets:
value: for some time
type: TEMPORAL
value: as with the great english epic
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: As with the great English epic, Beowulf, the Iliad and the Odyssey may have existed as oral tradition for some time and eventually were put into final, written form by a single poetic genius.