Homer and His Age

"Homer and His Age" by Andrew Lang is a defense of the classic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”, which argues that the poems came from one era and one author. The book goes against the common ideas of the time and says that the stories weren’t created by many people over long periods of time. Lang looks at the world shown in the poems and fights back against those who found mistakes or things that didn't make sense, pointing out the importance of audience and purpose. It pushes back against critics who want to change how we understand old texts using today's standards. Lang says that the fact that Homer's work is united shows that it comes from one person who understood a specific time and society, rather than being cobbled together.