Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 417-420

  Altschuler, Eric Lewin ^a   Calude, Andreea S ^b   Meade, Andrew ^b   Pagel, Mark ^b,c  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dating; Evolution; Homeric epics; Iliad; Linguistics; Phylogeny; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HOMERIAN; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84876300173     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200165     Document Type: Article

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