...before Christ. As a step towards that conclusion, Wolf maintained that no written copies of either poem could be shown to have existed during the earlier...composition is referred, and that without writing, neither the perfect symmetry of so complicated a work could have been originally conceived by any poet,...

...before Christ. As a step towards that conclusion, Wolf maintained that no written copies of either poem could be shown to have existed during the earlier...composition is referred ; and that without writing, neither the perfect symmetry of so complicated a work could have been originally conceived by any poet,...

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...before Christ. As a step towards that conclusion, Wolf maintained that no written copies of either poem could be shown to have existed during the earlier...composition is referred; and that without writing, neither the perfect symmetry of so complicated a work could have been originally conceived by any poet,...

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...has given rise. We can only endeavour to give a sketch of his principal arguments and of the chief objections of his opponents, stating at the same time...the art of writing. It is sufficient to state here a lew of the more important results at which he arrived. In early times the Greeks had no easy and convenient...

...men, the Odysseis for the other sex. TheM loose songs were not collected together into the form of an epic poem until five hundred years after." objections...more important results at which he arrived. In early tunes the Greeks had no easy and convenient materials for writing, such as must have been indispensable...

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