person
Homer
also: Homeros
Archaic Greek poet to whom the Iliad and Odyssey are ascribed; Rilke alludes to the idea that 'Homer' was a figure composed out of many wandering rhapsodes.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §50 Homer
The archaic Greek epic poet of the Iliad and Odyssey; Rilke invokes the theory that 'Homer' was a single figure composed out of many rhapsodes.