In 1795, the German philologist Friedrich August Wolf argued for the first time that not only were Homer's works not written down by Homer, but they weren't even by Homer.

1795年，德国语文学家弗里德里希·奥古斯特·沃尔夫首次提出，荷马的作品不仅不是荷马亲笔写下的，甚至也不是荷马本人亲自创作的。

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This discovery soon led the German scholar Friedrich August Wolf to argue that the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we possess had not been fixed in writing until relatively late.

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