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I divide the study of Homer and the Homeric epics in three innings. In this first ("Homer and the Homeric questions") I will discuss the issues, as I understand it, must precede the analysis and study of Iliad and Odyssey. In particular I will discuss these three points: 1. Homer, BASELINE OR ARRIVAL? Two. HOMER: LEGEND AND TRUTH 3. THE 1 "Homeric ISSUES". Homer, pfgc BASELINE OR ARRIVAL? pfgc In discussing whether Homer has to be considered as a point of departure or arrival I want to highlight the following: Although actually a large part of Greek literature after drinking from Iliad and Odyssey (in this sense, Homer's "starting point") Homeric poetry does not arise ex nihilo but is preceded by a long tradition of farming the epic genre. Look During 1971-1976: During, pfgc LM, Sulla preistoria poetica della tradizione fretwork. I-II, Rome, 1971-1976. Now, where to find the roots of this long tradition? Where and how Greek epic is born? Between the Indo-Europeans? In the Mycenaean world? In the Dark Ages? I. The first hypothesis to which we must pay our attention is obviously the one about the presence in the Greek epic of a possible Indo-European heritage; look at 1967 and 1968 Schmitt: Schmitt, R., Dichtung und Zeit Dichtersprache in indogermanischer, Wiesbaden , 1967. Schmitt, R. (Ed.), Indogermanische Dichtersprache, Darmstadt, 1968. The signs that speak of the possible existence of an Indo-European epic are of two basic types: equipment common to formulate various traditions (the term "immortal glory", made with the same lexemes, is attested both ancient Indian and Greek kleos áphthiton ) narrative elements that are in the same situation (eg, the belief in "the chariot of the Sun."). pfgc Now, none of this evidence is really evidence: pfgc the coincidence of an expression like "immortal glory" seems too generic, and, as regards the image of the chariot of the Sun, it has been said that this vehicle was not known by Indo-European, pfgc and therefore pfgc this can not be backdated to match that time. The basis for postulating an Indo-European epic with influence in Greece is, in my opinion, poor. II. Instead, they are weightier arguments of different types (linguistic and archaeological, first), in which the theory has been a continuous culture of the epic genre from the Mycenaean palaces to Homer is based. In this respect it may remind some classical references as Webster, TBL From Mycenae to Homer, London, 1958. West, ML, "Greek Poetry, 2000-700 bC" CQ 23 (1973), pp. 179-192. West, ML, "The Rise of the Greek Epic," JHS 108 (1988), p. 151-72. Chadwick, J., "The Descent pfgc of the Greek Epic," JHS 110 (1990), p. 174-77. A simple example illustrating taken lexical linguistic arguments that support the hypothesis of the Mycenaean Greek epic roots can be: phásganon is a Homeric word for "sword", not used in the standard of the first millennium Greek, but This word (pa-ka-na) appeared to be deciphered Mycenaean tablets, hence it is concluded that a micenismo phásganon, which came into the language of the epic in the Mycenaean period. III. If the epic was already cultivated in the Mycenaean palaces and the Homeric epic is his successor, what unites link through the Dark Ages? The most common hypothesis is that, in those years (1200-800), the epic tradition passed from the Thessalian cuts Lesbos and thence to Ionia in Asia Minor, which is supposed to find "Homer" in the S . VIII. C. Supposedly (and we have to see below) is this journey through several villages which explains the variety of dialectal forms found in the text of "Homer". In a presentation on "Homer" are to certainly pfgc discuss the different hypotheses on the origin of the Greek epic, as we have just done. However, I understand that the question of precedent Homer I must arise primarily from the texts themselves. So that students will become aware themselves that the Iliad and Odyssey are telling us that before them was a long prehistory of epic poetry. This is evident in the following Homer internal data, which we will review in turn: The linguistic features. The stylistic features c