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- From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: authoress of Odyssey (<< Robert Graves)
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 00:42:26 GMT
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- Message-ID: <lfm47iINN67n@news.bbn.com>
- References: <1992Nov6.025525.17839@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: andrews@Csli.Stanford.EDU's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:55:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.025525.17839@Csli.Stanford.EDU> andrews@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Avery Andrews) writes:
- In article <leqtlmINNn3g@news.bbn.com>, ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria) writes:
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- > Oh -- and his endorsement of Samuel Butler's theory that Nausicaa wrote
- > the Odyssey *is* woo-woo.
- >
- >I have to confess that, even thought I know Butler's book is off base,
- >I find it charming.
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- But the way it *should* have happened is that Homer's daughter devises
- the alphabet to record dad's Big Poem, & then writes the Odyssey herself.
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- You mean Homer's daughter was Phoenician?
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- -30-
- Bob
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- Bob Ingria
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