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Currently a difficult task due to the lack of consensus in the greater community over an accurate chronology, but definitely something to keep coming back to
In the meanwhile: it’s a good policy to have a survey of dates from sources in articles about time periods; for smaller mentions (ex. at the start of “Atenism under Akhenaten” here: “Amenhotep IV, the son of Amenhotep III, was crowned king c. 1353 BC.”) circa is your best friend
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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The paragraph on Zenodotus as Alexandrian librarian may be spurious; unlike the rest of the article it does not appear in EB1911 or the new EB, and surely it must refer to the Zenodotus of Alexandria mentioned in the text. Yet this does conflate them, and the dates could credibly overlap. Could they be the same person after all? Does anyone have any other source? David Brooks (talk) 21:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I may be off here, but I am almost entirely certain that the lowercase Greek letters were not invented at that time, and would not be for centuries to come - hence, how could he have used non-existing letters to number books of the Odyssey? That seems very strange. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.156.126.230 (talk) 09:19, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
The comment above is right. In this period the Greek alphabet only had what are now regarded as uppercase letters. The use of letters to number the books of the Homeric poems is indeed ancient, but the use of uppercase letters for the Iliad and lowercase letters for the Odyssey is a modern convention. I don't know if it's found before the age of printing at all. The statement in the article is incorrect. 157.138.17.25 (talk) 08:20, 22 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
