According to linguistic experts, the writing style of the Odyssey suggests Homer had no internal monologue.
>expertGet the fug outta here.
>>546122580>(((Linguistic Experts)))
>>546122580>linguistic expertsLike the austrian twink who is raging in another thread?
>>546122580The Ultimate Test For NPCs.>"How would you feel if you DIDN'T have breakfast this morning?">Strength failing in the limbs (Book 17, ll. 579–582): "No man can do battle the livelong day… if he is without food; however much he may want to fight, his strength will fail him before he knows it; hunger and thirst will find him out, and his limbs will grow weary under him." This is essentially a description of what it feels like to skip a meal and keep pushing — the body betrays you before your will does." - HomerConclusion:Not an Npc/HylicPneumatic / Player Characterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKaiJ-k_rg
>>546122580Homer sang the Iliad orally, and then the so-called Homerids kept doing the same until the text was partially written in Attic Greek. It is believed that the Odyssey was sung by another epic poet different from Homer.
>>546122580People without internal monologue write in iambic pentameter?
>>546123723>"And so we built our temples, not in sand and stone, but in flesh and blood, and held the Gods within ourselves.""For the Kingdom of Heaven is found within."
>>546122580>linguistic expertsMay we see them?
>>546122580>according to>suggest thatBecause those experts are entirely credible and all…
>>546123542>but I did have breakfast thoughClassic litmus test, that one.
>>546123117Kek.
>>546123723It's a mish-mash of all dialects because the reciters would introduce their local poetic forms over centuries, every community would refine it a bit and share it so with time it adopted linguistic features belonging to different tribes and historical periods.
