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Chapter 3 - The other view

Focus on linguistic innovations in the Homeric epics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2012

By
Rudolf Wachter
Edited by
Øivind Andersen  and
Dag T. T. Haug
Øivind Andersen
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Dag T. T. Haug
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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This study is about the question how the epic language of an oral poet who was active for some time and has left us more than one work should be expected to have shifted. There are hardly any new detailed results contained in it; its main goal is rather, as the title suggests, a change of perspective.

Two suppositions have to be made in order for this question to make sense at all: the identity of the poet of the Iliad and that of the Odyssey (I will call him Homer) and an Aeolic phase preceding the Ionic one as the explanation of the linguistic mixture we are confronted with in the text we have of the two epics.

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Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry , pp. 65 - 79
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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