I can't really answer then, since I can't tell what you mean by "everyone" (who?) assuming that Herodotus is wrong (in saying what?).
What I've observed is that people who are even interested though to consider it, are broadly receptive to suggestions that the two works probably weren't created in the form we have them, by a single author, in the date range held during the 5th Century BC. I don't think it's about "authority", though, so much as an idea that it's more complicated than that. It's not as if modern scholars are saying, "it was actually three people in 957BC, and they finished on a Tuesday afternoon" as a concrete counter-claim demanding specific proof.
I'm not familiar with what Herodotus actually said about Homer, that you're saying everyone assumes without evidence is wrong. I understand there was at the time an attribution to Homer of essentially the entirety of heroic literature, which seems a little unlikely. But if Herodotus didn't subscribe to that, or if he did but only as a knowing conceit, then for all I know he has made no actual assertions to be "wrong" about.
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Date: 2011-01-11 12:46 am (UTC)What I've observed is that people who are even interested though to consider it, are broadly receptive to suggestions that the two works probably weren't created in the form we have them, by a single author, in the date range held during the 5th Century BC. I don't think it's about "authority", though, so much as an idea that it's more complicated than that. It's not as if modern scholars are saying, "it was actually three people in 957BC, and they finished on a Tuesday afternoon" as a concrete counter-claim demanding specific proof.
I'm not familiar with what Herodotus actually said about Homer, that you're saying everyone assumes without evidence is wrong. I understand there was at the time an attribution to Homer of essentially the entirety of heroic literature, which seems a little unlikely. But if Herodotus didn't subscribe to that, or if he did but only as a knowing conceit, then for all I know he has made no actual assertions to be "wrong" about.