Homer:Critical Assessments by Irene de Jong

By Irene de Jong

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The absurdity of such a supposi­ tion is so obvious, that I wonder it should have been admitted for a moment. But he certainly indulged in liberties of this kind to a degree, which could not escape early animadversion. Euclid the elder used to say. It is easy to be a Poet, if you may lengthen words as you please (Aristot. Poet. C. 22). A . W o lf *Source: Prolegomena to Homer (1795), translated with introduction and notes by A . W . G. Zetzel, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1985, pp.

But that was not all. The notion o f a monolithic Homer, a supreme poetic genius whose work it was sacrilege to analyse, undoubtedly corresponded to certain tendencies of the time — a distrust of cold logic, a yearning to follow ‘the dictates of the heart’, and, 10 The Creation of the Poems more specifically, a widespread rejection of the intellectual approach to 30 poetry. The Unitarian reaction was thus to some extent a manifestation of the Zeitgeist. A. Scott in America, by Sheppard in England, and by Drerup in Germany.

Homer: an Introduction, 104. Cf. Ri 36 (1922) 75: ‘we all believe in the unity of Homer: it is only when we try to explain what that unity is and how it has come about, that the Homeric Question begins1. 7. Introduction à FIliade, par Paul Mazon avec la collaboration de Pierre Chantraine, Paul Collart et René Langumier (Paris, ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1 9 4 2 ); Theiler in Festschrift Tieche (Bern, Lang, 1947); P. Von der Mühll, Kritisches Hypomnema zur Ilias (Basel, Reinhardt, 1952). 8. But it remains possible that the name belongs to some much earlier poet, to whom all the best epics were indiscriminately ascribed in Callinus1day (and down to the fifth century).

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