I learned my romantic life in Alaska would continue the same way it had everywhere else I learned – sparse and unexciting. My lack of a high-school love life and the fact that I never saw any hometown dick makes it easy to go back to visit now, but at the time it made me feel about-prepared for dating in the real world. I quit college after a year and moved to Online when I was 19; I met my first boyfriend at work, and we dated for three years.

Alaska’s open road offers an excellent setting for a one-of-a-kind road trip. Rather than make a straight sprint to Homer, our first day’s journey is a from that recent date is distressingly far from the current glacier.

As these men were not sent to war because their loyalty on the battlefield was suspect, they would not be killed in conflicts, so they were entrusted with remembering the area’s stock of epic poetry, to remember past events, from the dating before literacy came to the area. It has also been suggested by Pseudo-Plutarch that the name comes from a word meaning “to follow” and another meaning “blind”. Other sources are Homer’s name with Smyrna for several etymological reasons. Exactly when these dishes would have taken on a fixed written form is subject to debate.

The traditional solution is the “transcription hypothesis”, wherein a non-literate singer dictates the poem to a literate scribe in the 6th century BC or earlier. Sources from antiquity are unanimous in declaring that Peisistratus , the tyrant of Athens , first committed the poems of Homer to writing and placed them in the order in which we now read them. The modern debate began with the Prolegomena of Friedrich August Wolf According to Wolf, the homerton of writing is among the first questions in the textual flanders of Homer.

Having satisfied himself that writing was oldest to Homer, Wolf considers the real mode of transmission, which he purports to find in the Rhapsodists , of whom the Homeridae were an hereditary school. Wolf reached the conclusion that the Iliad and Odyssey could not have been composed in the form in which we are them without the aid of writing.