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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

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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

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Explain phenomenon · Origins of specialists' "nonpoetical" emphasis

Legacy of Milman Parry's work on history of ancient Greek poetic traditions

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.

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The author notes at the beginning of the passage that there has been a “new surge of critical interest” in Homer’s poems. In the previous period — 1935 to 1970 — specialists focused on nonpoetic aspects of Homer’s work. But the renewed interest after 1970 focuses on “Homer’s poetry as literary art.”

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The renewed interest after 1970 focuses on “Homer’s poetry as literary art.”

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Actually, some of the recent work that focuses on Homer’s poetry as literary art is by Adam Parry. So it would be odd for the author to believe that the recent work is “more incisive than the work of the Parrys,” when one of the Parrys produces some of the recent work.

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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.

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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.

PrepTest 102 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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