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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 focuses on the changing critical interest in Homer’s poems. The author emphasizes that this renewed interest in the poetic aspects of Homer’s works has been spurred by nonspecialists rather than specialists. The specialists’ attention to non-poetic aspects was influenced by the work of Milman Perry, while the recent interest in poetic aspects has been influenced by Adam Parry.

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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. 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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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