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4 1 . L. Lorimer, Homer and the Monuments 480. Both Miss Lorimer and Von der Mühll {op. cit. n7, 1590 think that the Embassy was composed by Homer as an afterthought and was worked into the Iliad by the later and inferior poet who concocted Book VIII. This curious theory seems to rest on little more than the assumption that whatever is best in the Iliad must be ‘Homer’s'. But if Athens could within half a century give birth to three poets of genius, may not Ionia have produced more than one? 42.
Recently he was reinforced by a certain scholiast,4 a coadjutor unworthy of any mention had he not gathered his tale, one soon corrupted by the stories o f later grammarians, from the same Alexandrian remains. For it is clear that they did not draw it from Josephus. But each must work out for himself how much weight is to be attached to such a judgment of the ancients. Though I believe that it is very weighty, partly in itself, partly because they had in their possession more poems dose to the Homeric age, let it take the place o f an indictment, not a sentence, in this case.
There has also been a revival of 'separatism': Unitarian scholars like Reinhardt,42 Miss Lorimer, and Wade-Gery have not concealed their opinion that there are two monoliths and not one. In short, 'naive’ unitarianism is slowly43 being replaced by a ‘critical’ unitarianism which does not despise analytical methods and is prepared to adopt some part of the analysts' conclusions. While the analysts have gradually advanced to a fuller appreciation of the over-all design, their opponents are moving from angry assertion of the design to a closer study of the sometimes jarring parts.