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Horatio Parker · 03-26-2012, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Solo

It is fun, I agree and some of the parallels are indeed intriguing. Not the one in the video, mind you, but 'the stupid crew' of Odysseus and the 'nautical adventures' including the hydropatesis, may indeed have been borrowed and alluded to in Mark's mimesis of Homer. The allusions might have been camouflaged in a folksy tale told by a poorly educated Greek-speaker.

According to MacDonald, mimesis was often meant to be noticed.

It may be that Mark chose his models not just for dramatic purposes, but because he felt they made points about Jesus.

Luke and Matthew removed or changed many of the Homeric elements, was it because they recognized them and rejected them or didn't recognize them and so couldn't make sense of them.

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