TIME-LINE
OF THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY COMPARED
The Iliad, perhaps originally inscribed
on a long parchment scroll, not unlike a Torah, and divided
into 36 parts, each representing a lunation, eventually became
partitioned into 24 books, each representing a letter of the
Greek alphabet (after the digamma and the koppa
had been dropped from use), sometime near 550 BC under the aegis
of the Athenian Pisistratidae.
The
scheme shown below is taken from the inside dust-jacket of Cedric
H. Whitman's Homer and the Heroic Tradition. Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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