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- From: lizi@hermes.berkeley.edu (Cosma Shalizi)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: authoress of Odyssey (<< Robert Graves)
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 15:09:43 GMT
- Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (Berkeley Tentacle)
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- In article <ada612.721270900@huxley> ada612@huxley.anu.edu.au (Avery D Andrews) writes:
- >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.
- > > You mean Homer's daughter was Phoenician?
- >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').
- Actually, Lucian says someplace that Homer was a Hellenized oriental like
- himself, though not, as I recall, Phoenician. And there would have been a
- good reason for her to invent vowels: How else do you record the meter?
- Feh. I like this story better than Graves' :).
- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
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