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Homer and His Age

Homer and His Age

Lang, Andrew

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ISBN10: 1481017373
ISBN13: 9781481017374
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 15 2012
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Homer and his Age By Andrew Lang Greek History for Students In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy. We may style it the fallacy of the analytical reader. The poet is expected to satisfy a minutely critical reader, a personage whom he could not foresee, and whom he did not address. Nor are contradictory instances examined-that is, as Blass has recently reminded his countrymen, Homer is put to a test which Goethe could not endure. No long fictitious narrative can satisfy the analytical reader. The fallacy is that of disregarding the Homeric poet's audience. He did not sing for Aristotle or for Aristarchus, or for modern minute and reflective inquirers, but for warriors and ladies. He certainly satisfied them; but if he does not satisfy microscopic professors, he is described as a syndicate of many minstrels, living in many ages.

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