~ 1868 ~
The work "Homer and Classical Philology" by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche centers on the Homeric Question, which doubts the possibility of one person having written both the Odyssey and the Iliad. Nietzsche argues that these works were written by multiple people and that the source of their beauty is in their aesthetic arrangement. He posits that Philology, the study of language and literature, is a dead science that needs aesthetic development. Nietzsche's work attempts to defend this unpopular notion and dictate positions that he finds inherent to the field. The work was originally an inaugural address at Basel University in 1869, and it was translated into English in 1910.