Homer and the will of Zeus.(Essays: Interpreting Homer's Texts) From: College Literature | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Wilson, Joe | COPYRIGHT 2007 West Chester University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
  After reading the Homeric poems, and indeed after reading 
  interpretations of them, I cannot help asking about Homer and 
  wondering what he thought he was doing. (Ford 1992, 1) 

Andrew Ford's question haunts all who undertake the study of Homer, that most illusive of figures, endowed with none of the ordinary predicates of existence, the putative author, singer, or monumental composer of the incomparable Iliad and/or the Odyssey, or neither. (1) R. Martin has sugg...