《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》的作者荷马,被后人称为伟大的诗人、哲学家、神学家、语言学家、社会学家等等,备受世人关注。从古希腊开始就有人研究他,到近代人们对他的生平和创作以及史诗形成的问题产生了新的兴趣,展开了新的持续而激烈的争辩,构成了欧洲文学史上所谓的“荷马问题”。 Homer, the author of Iliad and Odyssey, has drawn much world attention by his later generations as great poets, philosophers, theologians, linguists and sociologists. From the beginning of ancient Greece, some people studied him, and in the modern time, people had a new interest in his life and creation and the formation of epics. They started a new continuous and fierce debate and formed the so-called “Homer Question” in the history of European literature ".