Some Comments about the Epic Caesura

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Some Comments about the Epic Caesura

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In response to some questions about the caesura in the Odyssey-a group, I was able to indulge in my taste for all things metrical.

In Some Comments on the Epic Caesura I give a possible origin for the heroic hexameter which accounts for the caesura, and then analyze the first 21 lines of Iliad A with special attention on interesting things that happen around the caesura.
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I'm no critic. But I think this comment should be added to the Textkit Tutorials list, isn't it?

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mingshey wrote:But I think this comment should be added to the Textkit Tutorials list, isn't it?
Well, it's hosted at Aoidoi.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/http://www.scholiastae.org/
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