Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey is to literature what the bible is to religion: it was the first profound work in its class – a combination of mythology with historical overtones and still, as the bible, the greatest in its genre; that, and a prototype of all future endeavors of its type and the foundation of Western literature.
Was it African in origin arising from oral traditions already thousands of years old by the time the it was written?
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J.A.Rogers Tony Brown, & Martin Bernal have shown about the colonization of southeast Europe by Africans thru lingustics,art,etc.What about the Colchians mentioned by Herodutus? Some historians doubt that Khemites marched to southern Russia but let them revel in their bias & ignorance.