Readers who dip into Sandy Pylos for the "truth" behind Homeric epics or Greek nationalism will be swept away instead by a torrent of time rushing across Messenia.

阅读《沙地皮勒斯》以寻找荷马史诗或希腊民族主义背后“真相”的读者，会被流过梅塞尼亚大地的时间激流冲走。

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this is the period in which the Homeric epics are finally written down now that there is writing and that gives them,I think, even greater impact on the Greek world in the future.

这个时期是就是荷马史诗最终写就的时期,所以那时有了文字,而这对他们,对希腊世界的未来,我认为产生了更大的影响

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in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.

事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱

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The historian Robert Darnton compares the oral tale tellers to the Yugoslavian bards studied in the twentieth century by Albert Lord and Milman Parry, in the effort to understand how the Homeric epics were composed.

NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time

Imagine a cross between a Homeric rhapsode, chanting one of the epics in front of a roaring fire, and the blues singer Muddy Waters.

NEWYORKER: Chunhyang