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Excerpt from Remarks on Prof. Mahaffy's Account of the Rise and Progress of Epic Poetry: In His History of Classical Greek Literature They are statements confirmed by no other evidence of the least value. They are, in a word, put forward, as far as the theory of an early written text is concerned, to account for the otherwise almost impossible preservation of poems of great length, unmixed with the other matter which, as I have said, we know to have existed and to have been accepted as Homer before the age of Plato. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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