On Post-Epic, or Imitative Words in Homer (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On Post-Epic, or Imitative Words in HomerOn the theory of late compilation we expect to find mistakes as to the meaning of very ancient words, and great liberties taken in coining others on the same model for the later rhap sodists may have been good poets and yet had philologers. I hope to be able to show that such errors (if it is not presumptuous to call them so) are both numerous and grave. The marvel, to my mind, is that they have so long been accepted as genuine, and that modern criticism has made no serious onslaught upon them. The result of the inquiry, as it appears to me, is very damaging to the received Opinions about the remote antiquity of our Homeric texts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.