Evidence
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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
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| Greek | The Iliad | CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1209-1300 | medium | Homer's invention is compared to a powerful star drawing things into its vortex; he is said to range over arts, nature, passions, forms, and images, and to create a world through the invention of fable, which Aristotle calls the soul of poetry. | record |