Противуречности у Омира и у нашој народној поезији
Contradictions in Homer and in our folk poetry

Summary/Abstract: The so-called "Homeric Question" revolves around the contradictions found within the Iliad and Odyssey, which some scholars interpret as evidence that these epics were composed by multiple poets rather than a single author. The text compares these inconsistencies to those in works by authors like Virgil and Shakespeare but notes that contradictions in Homer are much more frequent, suggesting a fundamentally different origin, closer to oral folk poetry than authored literary compositions. The author supports this view by examining similar contradictions in Serbian epic folk poetry, concluding that such inconsistencies are common in orally transmitted works and do not necessarily indicate multiple original songs, though they support the notion of Homeric epics as products of oral tradition.

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