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- From: ada612@huxley.anu.edu.au (Avery D Andrews)
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- Subject: authoress of Odyssey (<< Robert Graves)
- Date: 9 Nov 92 01:01:40 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- In article <lfm47iINN67n@news.bbn.com>, ingria@BBN.COM (Bob Ingria) writes:
- > 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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- Poor expression on my part. Let's say `adapts the Phonecian alphabet to
- Greek' (which seem to me to be enough of a feat to be called `devising').
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