Odessey study guide

The Greek word aoidos (ἀοιδός) or a"idos (ἀῳδός) referred to a classical Greek singer. In modern Homeric scholarship aoidos is used by some as the technical term for a skilled oral epic poet in the tradition to which the Iliad and Odyssey are believed to belong (compare rhapsode).[1] - Wikipedia -community, or collective, or group-

Formulaic Composition. The theory of oral-formulaic composition originated in the scholarly study of epic poetry, being developed in the second quarter of the twentieth century.

Homers greek name 

a process the ill kind and oddest underwent n the eighth century that seems to agnowledge oral tradition

Homer could not read or write so he had a scribe do it

period of history after the trojan war that ended in the 9th century bc. It was a process of refinement of older materials.