chorizont

plural chorizonts

1. One who challenges a widely held assumption of authorship for a major work, especially one who believes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by Homer.

   I say this not for your benefit, my dear friend, but lest some chorizont seek to sow discord between us.

   2005, Jacob Burckhardt, Maurizio Ghelardi, Italian Renaissance Painting According to Genres, →ISBN, page 8

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   This passage was used by van Leeuwen as evidence in his argument for different authorship of the Odyssey. Since this argument is given much weight by the chorizont Wilhelm Schmid, let us quote it in full:

   1938, Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer - Volume 15, page 137

   It is strange that in a matter of such vital importance we should have to say “ seems ”; but it is a fact that we have carefully searched 'Homer and the Epic,' and yet failed to make out whether Mr. Lang is a chorizont or no.

   1893, The Athenæum, page 465

   Synonyms: chorizontist