Alternate Beginnings for the Illiad

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Alternate Beginnings for the Illiad

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I thought these were rather interesting:

Μούσας ἀείδω καὶ Ἀπόλλωνα κλυτότοξον


The second is:

ἐ/σπετε νῦν μοι, Μοῦσαι, Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἐ/ουσαι,
ὁ/ππος δὴ μῆνις τε χόλας θ’ ἑ/λε Πηλείωνα
Λητοῦς τ’ ἀγλαὸν υἱόν. ὀ γὰρ βασιλῆι χολωθεὶς

Anyone have any ideas?

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where'd you get those from?

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Where did I find these?

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Glad you asked! These two quotations on alternate beginnings for the Illiad came from the web. They were in a site about the oral reading of the Illiad. I really didn't need to hear them reading the verse as I can do that fairly well myself with practice. But the alternate beginnings were interesting. Also the first one is from Apelliconis and the second from Aristarchus. I have heard of Aristarchus but not Apelliconis. Don't know anything about them either.

Once I find the site again I will post the URL

Thanks!

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I happen to have the alternate beginnings as well. In my Loeb *second edition* of Homer's Illiad book 1-12. Pages 12 and 13. They occur as footnotes.

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It is very very possible that if there was a Homer or at least someone who collected parts of the Illiad and the Oddysey and pieced them together as a whole work that there may be other beginnings that have been lost. From what I make of these I don't think they are as good as what we have

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