The Homeric Question Answered: Daniel Selesky Breaks His Silence

“The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey and their historicity.” — Stefania Gianetto

Sitting across from Daniel, Dan, Selesky, he looks more like the kind of guy you might see purchasing a hot dog at a gas station than the author of two of the most famous works of all time. If his story is to be believed, and I for one think that it is, he’s just cemented himself as one of the most important people in the history of the nation? The World? The Universe?

So Dan, who was Homer?

Homer was a guy who lived in the early seventh century BC. He was cool, liked to party some, but mostly just hung out.

Was Homer the author of the Iliad and/or the Odyssey?

No, I was.

How?

Time travel. I found a stitch in the fabric of time and I pulled at it.

Go on.

I realized that if I went into this one closet in my apartment and said a specific year, any year, that I would be transported there. A little like that movie About Time with Rachel McAdams, but less boring.

How did you discover this?

Does it matter?

Kind of.

Well, I had too much to drink one night and fell asleep in the closet. When I woke up in the morning, desperately…