TY - BOOK AU - Collobert,Catherine TI - The Odyssey, or the Birth of Fiction PY - 2004///. N1 - 84 N2 - Homer presents his poetic activity in his Odyssey through two bards, Phemios and Demodokos, and through an exceptional storyteller, Ulysses. This gives rise to a new conception of poetry as a mixture of truths and falsehoods. Such a definition leads us, through a reflection on the concepts of verisimilitude and simulated world, to consider Homer’s poetry as a fictional narrative UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-philosophique-2004-1-page-15?lang=en ER -