dave:
> Heavens, Rob
>
> at this time of night.
>
> OK, go for broke: Callimachus.
(Bloody librarians -- Alexandria was neither Babel nor Babylon).
See you, and raise you 200 years for the first pomo.
Archilochus.
Subverts the Grand Narrative. (Sod Troy for a joke. Take my shield -- I'm
out of here.)
Subjective point-of-view rather than Homer's Impersonal Narration.
Reality becomes style (poor Homer's coine turned from epic to satire)
Fictitious created self (not only pre-pomo, he could have lessoned Kent!)
Want more?
(See you in _The Book of Odes_.)
You're right -- it is late at night.
Robin
(Me hedgehog, you fox)
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