Assertion: homer's iliad | /r/HasProperty | composed
Facets:
value: orally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey were composed – continues to be debated.
text: The Iliad, then, is a work of composite authorship: it was put together over a long period by many bards, and the version we have, which was written down in about the eighth century BCE, represents only one version of what was even then an enormously popular story.
text: fateful journeys home had been circulating in Greece for hundreds of years before the Iliad and Odyssey were composed.
text: In the 1920s the critic Milman Parry proposed that both the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed orally.