Homer i jego poezja w Księgach Sybilińskich

Abstract

The article presents the reception of Homer’s poetry and reinterpretation the poet and his works in preserved the Sibylline Books. As pseudonymous works claim a right to be the first against Homeric poetry. From a religious point of view they present a critical attitude towards Iliad and its author, faulting him for bad actions, including fraud and theft of some intellectual value, in this case dactylic metre. The background for such presentation is the religious tradition of Judaism, despite its opening to Greek traditions. The absolute features of Sibyl as a pythoness enables her to be accepted also in the Christianity (Augustine, Thomas of Celano).