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Updated: May 1, 2025
Besides which the celebrated ordinance of Solon respecting the rhapsodes at the Panathenaia obliges us to infer the existence of written manuscripts of Homer previous to 550 B. C. As Mr.
But in the seventh century before the Christian era literary culture began to prevail among the Greeks; and men of education and wealth were naturally desirous of obtaining copies of the great poet of the nation. From this cause copies came to be circulated among the Greeks; but most of them contained only separate portions of the poems, or single rhapsodes, as they were called.
Grote well observes, the interference of Peisistratos "presupposes a certain foreknown and ancient aggregate, the main lineaments of which were familiar to the Grecian public, although many of the rhapsodes in their practice may have deviated from it both by omission and interpolation.
Then there is a cement to the whole people, subtler, more underlying, than any thing in written constitution, or courts or armies namely, the cement of a death identified thoroughly with that people, at its head, and for its sake. Why, if the old Greeks had had this man, what trilogies of plays what epics would have been made out of him! How the rhapsodes would have recited him!
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