"Epic poetry is divinely inspired (Iliad I: I) and as such is just as true as oracles, and for the same reason. It is no accident that oracles (such as those at Delphi) were enunciated in the same dactylic hexameter as the epic."
Cyrus H. Gordon

January 1, 1970

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Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer

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