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Miltonic Light on Professor Denys Page's Homeric Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Douglas Young
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In his sprightly volume The Homeric Odyssey (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955; originally the Mary Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania), Professor Denys Page favoured the public with what he terms (p. 149) a few points of interest from his notes on the vocabularies of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Listing words and phrases found in the Iliad but rarely or never in the Odyssey, and vice versa, he concludes (p. 157) ‘that the two poems were composed and transmitted in separate regions of Hellas’.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1959 , pp. 96 - 108
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1959

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1 I am not convinced by his Chapter V. Homer could not leave his hero with an unsettled blood-feud.

1 See his article, ‘In Defence of Homer’, Greece & Rome, Second Series, iii (1956), 123.Google Scholar