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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2009
In a recent edition of this journal, G. M. Sifakis looked at possible Homeric echoes in modern Greek folksong. This paper may be regarded as a coda to that article. Like a satyr play coming after the major dramas it is not entirely serious, but it is not entirely flippant either. My aim is to offer some comparisons between the Homeric tradition and that of the blues singers of the (originally, southern) United States.
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2. This is not intended to beg any questions about the biography of Homer. For the purposes of this paper, ‘Homer’ is to be taken to mean whoever, singular or plural, played a major role in shaping the poems which we now possess and know as the Iliad and Odyssey.
3. Homer, , Od. 8.73Google Scholar.
4. Ibid. 63 f.
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