As modern scholarship continues to dim the possibility that Homer was a single historic figure, the question of authorship of his works has been raised; although we might never know who wrote them, scholars still need some way to refer to the author or authors of the Iliad and Odyssey, so the term "Homeric tradition" has been ____________ as a possible new terminology. A. selected B. established C. appropriated D. bestowed E. suggested F. proposed