 Later, as it became fashionable to question whether certain passages of the known text of the "Iliad" were really composed by Homer (see Homeric scholarship), the genuineness of the "Deception of Zeus" was doubted.Albrecht Dihle listed the linguistic features unique to this section and "found so many deviations from the normal traditional use of Homeric formulas that he concluded that this section of the "Iliad" could not belong to the phase of oral tradition but was a written composition.