Were Illiad, Odyssey Written By Women?

“Andrew Dalby, author of Rediscovering Homer, argues that the attribution of the poems to Homer was founded on a falsehood. Homer’s link to the poems, Dalby writes, stems from an ‘ill-informed postclassical text, the anonymous Life of Homer, fraudulently ascribed to Herodotus,’ a respected Greek historian who lived from around 484-425 B.C.”