- The dissemination of Homeric epic broadly comes in three phases:
- composition and recomposition in oral performance
- popularisation, geographic distribution, and becoming an icon
- standardised texts widely distributed in libraries and book collections
- These phases overlap, come at different times in different places, with some surprises here and there (e.g. the earliest material evidence for a standardised form of the Odyssey comes from late 7th century Etruria, not from Greece). Two key questions. First: where do scrolls — transcription into physical copies — fit into this schema?
The evolving nature of Homer’s audience through the centuries
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