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‘Reading the texts’: archaeology and the Homeric question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

E. S. Sherratt
E. S. Sherratt*
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Specialists in Greek literature have long argued about how Homer's epics were formed and just what they represent. The question is a pressing example of the larger general case – the relationships between archaeology, history and oral literature in many periods and places. E.S. Sherratt, in offering an archaeological perspective on Homer, sets out to establish the stratigraphy of its text and its history

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990, pp. 807 - 824
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