07-13-2017, 09:56 PM
I knew once D'Amato's name was linked to the page someone would say something lol.
Still, it's a good resource.
Homer says a lot of things and there are what, a dozen versions, and countless translations (some scholar has a website that lists all the known versions)...so what do we take as gospel and what do we scratch our heads over? A lot of folks we both know, and we probably do it as well, find the passages in the version and translation of Homer they like because it supports our pov and ignore anything that seems to not agree with us. There's not even a consensus that a person named 'Homer" actually existed and if he/they were describing warfare in their own period, or a much earlier time.
Still, it's a good resource.
Homer says a lot of things and there are what, a dozen versions, and countless translations (some scholar has a website that lists all the known versions)...so what do we take as gospel and what do we scratch our heads over? A lot of folks we both know, and we probably do it as well, find the passages in the version and translation of Homer they like because it supports our pov and ignore anything that seems to not agree with us. There's not even a consensus that a person named 'Homer" actually existed and if he/they were describing warfare in their own period, or a much earlier time.
Joe Balmos
