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Greek Mythology and Religion

Prolegomena to Homer

by Friedrich August Wolf · Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most and James E. G. Zetzel (trans.)

Wolf's Latin treatise of 1795, available in English translation since 1985, argued that the Homeric poems were composed without writing and assembled later from shorter songs. It launched the modern Homeric question and the methods of textual criticism. The translation includes a substantial introduction on its context.

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