(17)Andrew Lang教授综合伍尔夫的结论。原文是:The Homeric poems were originally mere lays composed and handled down without the use of writing. Later they were committed to writing, and in the process were combined by the editors into continuous whole, and were also polished and emended in accordance with the taste of a more advanced age than that which gave them birth. Next they suffered many things and many editors, Alexandrian, and Imperial, and, finally, ran the gauntlet of Byzantine scholarship and of Byzantine ignorance.见 Andrew Lang: Homer and the Epic. Langmans. Green. Co. pp23. London 1893.
(18)这是Andrew Lang归纳的结论。原文是:Homeric poems, however much of them may have been composed by a single ancient minstrel, were but scttered cantos, living in the mouths of men, till Pisistratus began the work of committing them to manuscript. They were diversely handled. Till the age of the Alexandrians, when the undeniable harmony which they exhibit was imposed on them by the learning and taste of Aristophans and Aristarchus. 见Andrew Lang: Homer and the Epic. Langmans. Green. Co. pp43. London 1893.
(19)Homeric epic, in spite of certain flaw, and breaks, and probable insertion of alien matter, ate mainly the work of one, or, at the most, of two, great poets. Their place in literature has already been defined, they contain the voice of a whole world, they are full of the prime vigour of the Greek genius, and may be assepted as the sum, in the early and vigorous form, of all that the Greek genius was able to accomplish.见Andrew Lang: Homer and the Epic. Langmans. Green. Co. pp 10. London 1893.
(22)Wade-Gery term Parry "the Darwin of Homeric studies" and explains: "As Darwin seemed to many to have removed the finger of God from the creation of the world and of man, so Milman Parry has seemed to same to removed the creative poet from the Iliad and Odyssey." See A. B. Lord: Epic Singer and Oral Tradition. Pp2-3. Cornell University Press, 1991.