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In the dim records of the eighth century we can just trace the outlines of a life which was still pre-hellenic, but which held in it the germ Of Hellenism. The old kingdoms have mostly disappeared. Sybaris and Miletus are the two wealthiest and largest cities in the Greek world. Sparta and Athens are be coming important powers in Greece Proper. The afterglow of the mediaeval world, which had produced the age of the epic, had faded out; and on the eastern horizon appears, pale and clear, the dawn of a new day.
The earliest Of the Greek lyrists, in whom the voice Of Hellas first manifests itself, do not go back much beyond 700 BC Already by that time the memory of the Homeric poems had become faint and dispersed. The Iliad and Odyssey, like two great mountain peaks, had retreated and become hidden behind the foot-hills Of the Cycle. The new poetry, the poetry Of Hellas, rose independently of them, except in so far as it was a distinct reaction from them, and except in so far-as they. Had created a literary language which to a great extent remained that of the whole Greek world. The Greek genius had set itself to the two great creations which it introduced into the world and over which it spent its whole life - the creation Of the state and the creation Of the individual. The epic minstrels dwindled into court poets and became Obsolete. For all the lyrists of the seventh and the earlier half of the sixth century, Homer might not have existed we do not feel Homer in them.
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In an age of few written texts and no exact scholarship, the Iliad and Odyssey had only survived, as it were, by a series of miracles. There had been much interpolation, much confusion, much cutting up but the organic unity and organic life of the poems were so complete and so powerful that they had come through substantially intact. The text of the Odyssey, the various texts of the Iliad, which were collected by the enthusiasm and industry of Athenian scholars, enabled them to reinstate and give universal currency to an Iliad and Odyssey which were in substance the authentic Homer.
The term I have just used must be more closely defined if it is not to be misunderstood. The authentic Homer was not a fixed text. This is no paradox; it only seems paradoxical because we are so accustomed to poems which have assumed a fixed text - before the invention of printing as well as after from the moment of publication. But when reading and writing were arts laboriously exercised and confined to a small number of skilled experts, there was no such thing as publication. A poet then retained his poem more in his own possession; he did more freely, more as a matter of course, what it is his natural tendency to do - remodelled, retouched, recast, rearranged, reworded, what still remained fluid and plastic in his hands. If he chose, this process only ended with his life. Even after that, it went on among those into whose hands the poem passed, so far as they were not restrained by reverence for the text as they had received it.
For the Odyssey, with its close-knit and masterly construction, little had to be done. The larger and more elastic scheme of the Iliad had admitted more variation and interpolation it had paid the price also of its wider diffusion and its greater popularity.
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