The authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey has long been debated  Some traditional evidence suggests that Homer created both works, or at least large portions of them, but there is equally forceful evidence that he had nothing to do with either
Since there is no overwhelming evidence for either claim, we ought to accept the verdict of tradition that Homer is the principal author of both works
One should accept the authority of tradition only if one has nontraditional evidence for the traditional hypothesis.