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
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Actually, some of the recent work that focuses on Homer’s poetry as literary art is
c
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Not supported, because we don’t know that recent scholarship believes the specialists’ scholarship is “irrelevant.” The author believes the specialists’ work from that time is not focused on what’s important about Homer’s work, but this doesn’t imply that the recent scholarship rejects the specialists’ work.
d
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The author never suggests that Weil and Auerbach’s work has been ignored by scholarship after 1970. Weil and Auerbach’s work, which focuses on the poetic aspects of Homer’s work, has a similar aim as the more recent scholarship, which focuses on Homer’s work as literary art.
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The author never suggests that work after 1970 has tried to confirm authorship of the works attributed to Homer.