REPLY TO 04/19/98 14:17 FROM [log in to unmask] "Karlien van den Beukel":
Re: Jeremy Hester Prynne
> From: Karlien van den Beukel <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >It is said also that Homer was a medic
> who followed the greek armies to Troas...
>
> Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX
I hadn't heard that theory, though some of Homer's descriptions of
battlefield wounds certainly seem medically exact -- cf. e.g. Iliad
14.465ff -- which is probably why the theory was thought up.
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