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What do you think of this? An over Zealous professor wanting to sell some books by stirring up controversy?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2251270.html
Sounds like something a modern academic would think up. Notice how he tries to refute the view that early authors didn't claim Homer was a woman by saying we don't have an actual eyewitness account of Homer's gender. I don't see why one of these early authors couldn't have based this gender assignment on an earlier text which was based on evidence of Homer's true agenda (i.e. evidence that has since been lost). It seems we see repeating scenarios like the following these days - where some scholar:a) takes an historical belief thought to be well-established or an assumed fact,b) asserts something rather novel or even radical to change this belief, andc) what is asserted has influences on modern socio-political thoughtThis may or may not be the case with the Homer assertion, but it seems to share some this phenomena I'm pointing to. We should therefore consider it with a cautious mind.
I would just dismiss kooks like this guy. He's just trying to sell a book and carve a nitch out for himself in the field for short term gain. He's screwing himself royally though as a long term scholar of note. He's just a blip on the radar screen, here today and gone tomorrow.
I would just dismiss kooks like this guy. He's just trying to sell a book and carve a nitch out for himself in the field for short term gain. He's screwing himself royally though as a long term scholar of note. He's just a blip on the radar screen, here today and gone tomorrow.
Thats an interesting observation. People who want to be taken seriously wouldnt sell out tomorrow for today for 'fifteen minutes' of fame.
I would just dismiss kooks like this guy. He's just trying to sell a book and carve a nitch out for himself in the field for short term gain. He's screwing himself royally though as a long term scholar of note. He's just a blip on the radar screen, here today and gone tomorrow.
Yes, I guess people would do anything to get their very own wikipedia article...
I would just dismiss kooks like this guy. He's just trying to sell a book and carve a nitch out for himself in the field for short term gain. He's screwing himself royally though as a long term scholar of note. He's just a blip on the radar screen, here today and gone tomorrow.
Thats an interesting observation. People who want to be taken seriously wouldnt sell out tomorrow for today for 'fifteen minutes' of fame.
I think he merely got 1 minute of fame ...
I read somewhere that excluding the gods and cast of the Iliad and Odyssey, the only known for certain historical Greek Women are Xantippe wife of Socrates and Sappho, which illustrates how “anonymous” the rest were.
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