Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys"

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

michael helsem wrote:


> he's little more shadowy than Shakespeare,


There's gobs of documentation on Shakespeare; he is incomparably the
best documented poet of his nation and century.  See

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/pieces/shakespeare.shtml


> if the Odyssey arose in this manner, it certainly received its last editing 
> at the hands of a great creative artist, & this is the TE PEMCI we honor in

> "Homer"'s name.


Indeed.

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