From: TonyProst@aol.com
Date: Sun Nov 08 1998 - 23:36:31 EST
In a message dated 11/8/98 6:52:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
markus@upnaway.com writes:
<<
I think you may well be right here, but I'm also wondering whether there is
also the factor of genre to contend with. The poetry of Homer may have
called for grammatical and syntactical adaptions that the "simpler" genres
of the NT did not. It's a bit like the Hebrew of the Psalms, which
obviously maintains older forms and structures, not to mention just doing
things differently for poetical effect. Anyway, just a thought...
>>
it is certainly true that the rhythmic requirements of dactylic hexameter
require extra syllables here and there. I don't know what the most ancient
Greek prose is, but I am sure that it is nothing like Homer.
Regards,
Tony Prost
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