WorkHomer
Homer (c. 8th century BCE) · c. 8th c. BCE
InferredHomeric dialect' is a direct allusion to Homer's elevated and precise epic diction.
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Documented 1843–1845
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“They cannot reef and brace other than in a Homeric dialect”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Homeric dialect' is a direct allusion to Homer's elevated and precise epic diction.
“In Greek, Homer is a book for a boy; must you give him Plato because it is harder?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p103
Inferred Fuller recommends "Homer" as suitable reading for a boy, contrasting it with Plato's perceived difficulty, which suggests her familiarity with Homeric texts, though she does not specify either the Iliad or the Odyssey.