Authority In Homer's Iliad

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Authority is vital in any kind of writing, but especially so in literary fiction. As the writer is creating a world that is essentially made from thin air, the reader must feel safe and certain that the world he/she is entering into is real and genuine. The reader must be able to trust the writer in order to engage with the work. All things considered, the author absolutely must work hard in order to gain the reader’s trust so he would become authoritative. There are many examples in history of different authors, who became authoritative by their literary work, such as Homer and his piece of art ‘Iliad’. Iliad is a reliable poem that is composed in the 8th B.C.E. It is considered the oldest surviving work in the European literature, that fact

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