Posted on 06/29/2018 6:44:16 AM PDT by C19fan
“...claims that Homer’s poems were written by a committee of black Egyptian scholars”
Ha. That is patently ridiculous. No committee would have completed the poems. There would have been subcommittees. Then study groups. Yielding to focus groups. Which would have spawned discussion groups. And down through time ever splintering.
I’d not heard of that one, thanks VR.
by Eloise McKinney Johnson
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44324750
http://www.google.com/search?q=Who+Homer+Really+Was
The woman has no notion of poetic creativity, or how difficult it is to translate a poem from one language to another (people still learn Greek to read Homer in the original), or that the stories connected with the Trojan War were Greek traditions which the Egyptians knew nothing about.
Plus, the doge of Venice had a score to settle.
BTW what are the years between BC and AD called?
There are no years between B.C. and AD. B.C. is before the birth of Christ. A.D. Is after his birth. Not after his death. Anno Domini is “Year of the Lord”. Yes the one is English and the other Latin. There used to be A.C.n. (Ante Christi, natum) but the usage changed to English some time ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.