I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
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I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
All men begin their learning with Homer.
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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