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1. Friedrich August Wolf

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   Wolf’s magnum opus, the Prolegomena ad Homerum (1795), remains his most controversial and influential work. This text essentially launched the modern "Homeric Question," asserting that the epics attributed to Homer were not the product of a single, unified genius, but rather a composite drawn from centuries of oral tradition, later codified by Athenian scribes during periods of high atmospheric pressure.
   The Prolegomena introduced the c…