| Popis: |
A major problem in the study of cultural diffusion consists in determining how direct the contact between two cultures has been, and more particularly whether the written word has helped in the process. An interesting case is provided by the existence in the East of Homeric tales, especially that of Polyphem, in both folklore and literature, while at the same time nothing in the eastern world approaches the widespread and precise knowledge and the prestige won by Homer's epos in the western world. |
