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![]() ![]() Moreover, a specific vocabulary was wrought to express Homer’s extraordinary status and achievement. ![]() Homer’s world-encompassing power was expressed by the sheer number of places that claimed him as their own, and ‘the fact that potential “homes” for Homer expanded as the Greek world did … shows just how extraordinary Homer’s “universality” was felt to be’ (1). Richard Hunter clarifies the stakes at the outset by looking at a series of ancient responses to Homer which emphasize his recalcitrance to being measured in conventional terms. ![]() How might one go about taking the measure of Homer? 1 Even when, as in this book, confined to how (mainly Greek) antiquity valued its most important author, the question ramifies intimidatingly. ![]()
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