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To: PIF
Back in the day, we were taught that Homer wrote down existing oral stories

Yup. And there is a very great deal of evidence - specific memory markers such as repetitions of "rosy-fingered dawn" for example - that both poems are exactly that. The controversy these days mostly centers around the question "Were there two Homers?", based on subtle differences between the Greek dialect used in the oldest available copies of the respective works. That's way outside my paygrade but my last Classics professor said he thinks there's a good chance there probably were.

27 posted on 03/13/2023 5:01:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Obviously Homer did not write the two epic poems.

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It was William Shakespeare.


29 posted on 03/13/2023 5:42:48 PM PDT by KC Burke (Once the architecture for suppression of liberty is in place it is only a matter of time before gove)
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To: Billthedrill

My Greek prof thought that one was the original and the other an edited version by a later hand. Not really “two Homers”, just a Homer and an Editor.


45 posted on 03/14/2023 6:36:26 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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