Re:A Winelike Sea
by mykowebhn on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:08AM
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This is a really great explanation, but could you also add a few references? That would help greatly.
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Maybe start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milman_Parry
That’s hard a lot of this is knowledge from my Classics days.
There are other theories about Homeric verse. Scholars are pretty sure about formulaic composition explaining some features of Homer. It passes the sniff test and is a simple explanation to a lot of artifacts in the Homeric texts. Some analysis of Homer is misguided since it wasn’t made as a written work. This isn’t a universal belief among scholars today afaik, but it’s a defensible position.