Ancient Greek scholars who argued that Homer's works were composed by multiple authors rather than a single poet.
From Greek 'chorizein' meaning 'to separate' and the agent suffix '-tes.' The term was coined in ancient times to describe this specific school of textual interpretation that challenged the traditional view of Homer's authorship.
These ancient scholars were literary detectives who looked at inconsistencies in Homer's poetry and basically said 'no way one person wrote this'—making them ancestors of modern forensic stylometry and textual analysis!
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