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To: SunkenCiv

This guy reads Homer in TRANSLATION and ascribes authorship?! The Romans tried a repeat with Virgil and the Aeneid and was largely successful, providing Virgil in comfort on the most important commissioned work (commissioned by man, anyway) in the last couple of millennia.

If you read the Greek, and can scan, you would find this is not the work of WikiGreekia, but of one man who can write poetry. The hubris of book hustling authors...


42 posted on 01/05/2015 3:55:34 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Revisionist theories of attribution of famous works are like haemorrhoids. Sooner or later every anusmundi will have one.

Allow me to commend you on your analysis:

If you read the Greek, and can scan, you would find this is not the work of WikiGreekia, but of one man who can write poetry. The hubris of book hustling authors!

I hope this charlatan Nicolson's work: "Why Homer Matters," is nothing more than this seasick nincompoop's Doctoral Dissertation at The Tule County College of Driver's Ed and Chicano Studies.

43 posted on 01/05/2015 5:06:50 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: Dr. Sivana

‘WikiGreekia’, definitely plan to quote that in the future. :’)


52 posted on 01/06/2015 4:06:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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