[New-Poetry] The Iliad of Homerina

[Anny Ballardini]

How interesting, I think you are right, and from what I can remember of what I thought when I was 15 there is also great attention to the beauty of heroes, and heroines, who can remember Nausicaa? The purest character I have in me.
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  In a message dated 12/17/2006 12:23:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com writes:
      http://www.slate.com/id/2155360

      Was Troy real—and was the author of The Iliad a woman?


    The Victorian novelist and translator Samuel Butler thought the same thing about The Odyssey
  It did seem to me in reading The Odyssey that there was excessive attention to the life styles of rich and powerful. (Not that this is strictly of femine interest). Usually the first thing Homer seems to versify about when Odysseus lands somewhere and is taken in 
  is how well the hero is bathed, oiled and dressed, what 'the good things that are laid at hand'
  to eat, the copious bowls of wine passed around in front of the hearth, etc. Elements of hospitality and the ability to provide creature comforts are important markers in the narrative.
  Finnegan




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