The sources discuss the long-standing uncertainty over the authorship of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. They note that, when the work first circulated in ancient Greece, there was no clear attribution to a known individual author. Instead, the poem is associated with the name “Homer,” but the question of how that label became attached to the text remains open. The Conversation focuses on the problem of how “Homer” came to function as an author name despite the absence of an identifiable writer at the time of the Odyssey’s early circulation. The Independent similarly highlights that scholars still debate the epic’s origins and authorship, reflecting broader challenges in reconstructing authorship in ancient literary culture. Together, the accounts emphasize that “Homer” is likely a traditional or conventional name rather than evidence of a specific, verifiable person who wrote the Odyssey. The debate therefore centers on the origins and transmission of the work and how later attribution practices gave the poem a named author.