Question

Which distinction best completes the sentence? Select the correct answer from the list.(1 point)
Scholars long believed Homer was a poet who was blind and who sang his epic works rather than writing them down.
more recent scholarship suggests that Homer was not blind and wrote revisions of stories that had been in existence for hundreds of years.
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Answer 1

The contrast between the traditional (long‑held) view and a more recent scholarly reinterpretation — i.e., the older belief that Homer was a blind singing poet versus the modern view that he was literate and revised longstanding stories.