Self-study
P1
While a new surge of critical interest in the ancient Greek poems conventionally ascribed to Homer has taken place in the last twenty years or so, it was nonspecialists rather than professional scholars who studied the poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey between, roughly, 1935 and 1970. ███
Intro topic ·
Study of ancient Greek poems
Singles out two poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey
Contrast ·
Nonspecialists and specialists
Nonspecialists focused on what made these poems great, while specialists focused on more loosely connected side topics
Author's perspective ·
Specialists emphasized the wrong things about these poems
Author quotes someone else to make this point
P2
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Explain phenomenon ·
Origins of specialists' "nonpoetical" emphasis
Legacy of Milman Parry's work on history of ancient Greek poetic traditions
P3
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Later developments ·
Return to poetical emphasis
Adam Parry built on Milman's work to bring focus back to the unique poetic aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Unclear whether Adam was a specialist or nonspecialist.
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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a
The Homeric poems ███ ████ ██████████ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████ ████ ████ ████████
This doesn’t capture the author’s focus on the renewed interest in poetic aspects of Homer’s work and the causes of that changing interest. In addition, the author cares more about the poetic aspects of the work rather than the way the work can tell us about history. She calls Adam Parry’s focus on Homer’s poetry as a literary art “appropriate.”
b
The Homeric poems ███ ███ ████████ ██ █ ██████ █████████ ███ ███████████ █████████ ██ ████ ███████
This doesn’t capture the author’s focus on the renewed interest in poetic aspects of Homer’s work and the causes of that changing interest.
c
The Homeric poems ███ █████████ ████████ █ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ██ ███████████ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ █████████ █████████
This best captures the author’s focus on the renewed interest in poetic aspects of Homer’s work and the causes of that changing interest.
d
The Homeric poems ███ █████████ ████████ █ ██████████ ██ █████████ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ████ ███████ ████ ████████ ██ ███████████ ████████
Not supported. The author never indicates that “most” (over half) studies were authored by nonacademic writers during the previous period. Although nonspecialists, as opposed to specialists, studied the poetic aspects of Homer’s work during that period, this doesn’t imply that over half of studies during that period were from nonacademics.
e
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This doesn’t capture the author’s focus on the renewed interest in poetic aspects of Homer’s work and the causes of that changing interest.