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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.01.21 (1379 words) |
 | Taplin's guiding thesis is that Homer is a powerful and engaging poet, and that his Iliad is a brilliantly integrated whole, which was sung repeatedly more or less exactly as we have it. |
| Taplin himself argues that these theses are not crucial to his larger project (44), and it is true that what we take to be the poetic richness of the Iliad does not depend on how it was composed. |
| Taplin may still be right to suggest the Iliad falls naturally into three parts, and it may even be the case that this reflects the fact that Homer occasionally performed it in that way. |
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