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Was Homer Real?
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| March 8, 2023
| Caleb Howells
Posted on 03/13/2023 2:40:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Mr. K
Rudyard Kipling -- it is the introductory poem to his second collection of "Barrack Room Ballads."
Kipling often began and ended his stories with a poem. The first introduced the subject of the story, and the ending poem summarized it.
He does this with great effect in "Puck of Pook's Hill".
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posted on
03/14/2023 6:26:47 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I have not run across that one - I'll give it a look.
I was a fan of Richmond Lattimore's translation for many years. It is absolutely the best "crib" for a Classics major, which I *almost* was (did not have enough Latin after I completed my Greek, so majored in History because I had a good thesis topic).
But I'm a convert to Robert Fagles' translation - it is not as word-for-word accurate as Lattimore, but it is fabulous as a whole. Makes more sense poetically, I think.
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posted on
03/14/2023 6:31:30 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: PIF
Point taken! But it seems clear that Homer gathered older stories and worked them into a new and coherent whole (as Kipling notes!) Otherwise, we would just have fragments along the lines of Sappho’s poems . . . the only survivals were used by later poets to illustrate the Aeolic dialect.
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posted on
03/14/2023 6:33:23 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: KC Burke
OK -- that means that I *have* to mention another Kipling work . . .
. . . just in case you ever wondered how a committee of bishops managed to create such a wonderful work as the Authorised Version of the Bible!
Proofs of Holy Writ
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posted on
03/14/2023 6:35:15 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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.
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03/14/2023 6:36:26 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
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posted on
03/15/2023 5:50:05 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
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posted on
03/15/2023 11:01:03 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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