Richard Janko, “The Derveni Papyrus” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Difference in Time Between Homer's Works and Haseit
One of the things that you were able demonstrate was, again, by philological analysis, the difference in time between homer's works and haseit. A which which seems like just a fascinating thing. What i looked at was some the way that you can date these poems by the number of am, er, older versus younger forms in them. They had to be very common things which occur a lot. So am, you know, it was, ah, quite good. Quite easy to get statistically valid results. And r many of the explanations were wrong, and a lot of them were demonstrably wacky or unlikely. The empirical evidence to back it up just wasn't there very often
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