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... poetry of Indo - European heritage is not unlikely . But if so , its metre was like that of their other poetry ; that is to say , it was composed in short lines , mainly of eight syllables or less , with the cadences -- and -- . 2 These ...
... poetry of Indo - European heritage is not unlikely . But if so , its metre was like that of their other poetry ; that is to say , it was composed in short lines , mainly of eight syllables or less , with the cadences -- and -- . 2 These ...
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Hesiod Martin Litchfield West. as belonging to the poetic language ; and as we cannot conceive of it being used in epic , the most likely source would seem to be didactic poetry on farming or sailing . The other considera- tion is a ...
Hesiod Martin Litchfield West. as belonging to the poetic language ; and as we cannot conceive of it being used in epic , the most likely source would seem to be didactic poetry on farming or sailing . The other considera- tion is a ...
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... poets who were more used to reciting poetry than to fixing it in writing , and it is evident that there is much in the written poems which reflects the habits of the oral poet . ' If we are to see the composi- tion of the Works and Days ...
... poets who were more used to reciting poetry than to fixing it in writing , and it is evident that there is much in the written poems which reflects the habits of the oral poet . ' If we are to see the composi- tion of the Works and Days ...
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HESIOD | 25 |
THE TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT | 60 |
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