Well, the true answer to your question is 'I don't know nor does anybody
else' but, rather than getting into a tangle of hypotheses about the
pedigree of Homer on the calendar, what is, I think, more moot is that oral
poetry in pre-literate cultures and the same in cultures that have reached
the point of saturation where script is necessary are NOT comparable.
david bircumshaw
----- Original Message -----
From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: getting back to spatiality
> david said
>
> >
> >I have this peculiar notion that the Oddysey and Iliad survive as books.
> >Odd, that.
>
> they survived for a long time before they were written down. no?
> komninos
>
>
> 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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