Nobody knows, yes. But it's assumed, based on survivals in the text of
mnemonic and rhythmic tags of a kind still used in oral epic, that there
was a cycle of oral poetry assembled and rationalized on whatever the
compiler, call him Homer for argument's sake, used for a writing medium,
presumably cloth or papyrus.
Mark
At 12:54 PM 1/23/2001 +1000, komninos zervos wrote:
>david said
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>>I have this peculiar notion that the Oddysey and Iliad survive as books.
>>Odd, that.
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>they survived for a long time before they were written down. no?
>komninos
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>komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
>cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
>komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
>lecturer in cyberStudies,
>school of arts,
>gold coast campus,
>griffith university,
>pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
>queensland, 9726
>australia.
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