| 单词 | homeric question |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHomeric question Homeric question n. (with the) the question of the authorship, composition, and date of poems attributed to Homer. ΚΠ 1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 37 I might, perhaps, have declined..any notice of what, for the sake of brevity, may be termed the Homeric Question. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer ii. 17 The controversies summed up under the name of the ‘Homeric Question’ cannot be passed by even in an elementary work. 1903 New Internat. Encycl. IX. 513/1 It is in the modern world that the famous Homeric Question begins..with F. A. Wolf's Latin Prolegomena ad Homerum, published in 1795. 1980 M. S. Jensen (title) The Homeric question and the oral-formulaic theory. 2008 J. Gottschall Rape of Troy vi. 101 The Homeric epics..were composed by a man (or men, depending on how you answer the Homeric question), mainly about men, and largely for men. < as lemmas |
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