Some Notes on Homeric Folk-Lore

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ID8932005
AuthorsW Crooke (corresponding author), W Crooks (corresponding author)
Year1908
Volume19
Issue1
Pages52-77
Publication date1908-03-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587x.1908.9719809
OpenAlexW4252852646
LanguageEN
Citations received27

IN this paper I propose to deal with some of folklore and folk-tales to be found in Homeric poems, and it not my intention to join, except indirectly, mellay of Unitarians,-those who, like Mr. Lang, contend that Iliad and Odyssey are work of a single writer,-and Separatists, or, as they used to be called, Chorizontes, represented by Mr. Leaf. But study of folk-lore and folk-tales of Homer so closely connected with problem of origins that it impossible to pass by this controversy in silence. As students of tradition and romance our sympathies are probably on side of old-fashioned view which attributes both epics to a single writer. arguments in its favour have been forcibly stated by Mr. Lang in his recent book.' In first place, he has made a well-timed protest against analytical the literary entomologist, as he has recently been profanely called. The poet, he justly remarks, is expected to satisfy a minutely critical reader, a personage whom he could not foresee, and whom he did not address. He accepts statement of Mr. Leaf that epics were Court poems. They were composed to be sung in

Aesthetics · Art · Folklore · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Romance · Silence · Statement (logic · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy

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