Homer

The decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris and others, convinced scholars of a linguistic continuity between 13th century BC Mycenaean writings and the poems attributed to Homer. He got on base once on a walk. Research (pioneered by the aforementioned Parry and Lord) into oral epics in Serbo-Croatian and Turkic languages began to convince scholars that long poems could be preserved with consistency by oral cultures until someone bothered to write them down. The Mariners swept the series in 3 games, and in 3 games and 9 at bats, he had 0 hits. The excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in the late 19th century began to convince scholars there was a historical basis for the Trojan War. In 2000, with a 95-67 White Sox team, Konerko made his only postseason whey they lost to the Seattle Mariners in the 2002 American League Division Series. Modern classicists continue the tradition. Areas he was not as good in, included 27 home runs, 81 runs, and 30 doubles.

The commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey written in the Hellenistic period (3rd to 1st century BC) began exploring the textual inconsistencies of the poems. With those credentials, he made the All-Star team. Another significant question regards the tales' possible historical basis. He had 17 less strikeouts than the year before at 72 and a .359 on base percentage. See main article Troy.. In 570 at bats, he had 173 hits and a .304 batting average with 104 RBI's. More radical Homerists, such as Gregory Nagy, contend that a canonical text of the Homeric poems as "scripture" did not exist until the Hellenistic period. In 2002, his stats improved in some areas, and went downhill in others.

The traditional solution is the "transcription hypothesis", wherein a non-literate "Homer" dictates his poem to a literate scribe in the 6th century BC or earlier. He had 92 runs scored. Exactly when these poems would have taken on a fixed written form is subject to debate. His batting average was .282. He called these chunks of repetitive language "formulas.". He just missed the 100 RBI mark, getting 99, with a career high 35 home runs. The crucial words are "oral" and "traditional." Parry started with "traditional." The repetitive chunks of language, he said, were inherited by the singer-poet from his predecessors, and they were useful to the poet in composition. In 582 at bats in 2001, Konerko had a total of 164 hits, 35 doubles.

Could the Iliad and Odyssey have been oral-formulaic poems, composed on the spot by the poet using a collection of memorized traditional verses and phases? Milman Parry and Albert Lord pointed out that such elaborate oral tradition, foreign to today's literate cultures, is typical of epic poetry in an exclusively oral culture. Each year, Konerko's statistics have been impressive. An analysis of the structure and vocabulary of the Iliad and Odyssey shows that the poems consist of regular, repeating phrases; even entire verses repeat. After that, his career took off for the most part. Most Classicists would agree that, whether there was ever such a composer as "Homer" or not, the Homeric poems are the product of an oral tradition, a generations-old technique that was the collective inheritance of many singer-poets, aoidoi. After two incomplete seasons in the Majors, he was traded by the Reds to White Sox for Mike Cameron. Thus they were entrusted with remembering the area's stock of epic poetry, to remember past events, in the times before literacy came to the area. It was the longest shutout in California League history.

As these men were not sent to war because their loyalty on the battlefield was suspect, they would not get killed in battles. On May 13, 1995 with the San Bernardino Spirit, he drove in the only run of a 21-inning game. There is a theory that his name was back-extracted from the name of a society of poets called the Homeridae, which literally means "sons of hostages", i.e., descendants of prisoners of war. As a Minor leaguer, Konerko enjoyed some good numbers. In Greek his name is Homēros, which is Greek for "hostage". He has 592 career RBI's and 482 runs scored. So little is known or even guessed of his actual life, that a common joke has it that the poems "were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name," and the classical scholar Richmond Lattimore, author of well regarded poetic translations to English of both epics, once wrote a paper entitled "Homer: Who Was She?" Samuel Butler was more specific, theorizing a young Sicilian woman as author of the Odyssey (but not the Iliad), an idea further speculated on by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter. He has 4 stolen bases in 965 games.

Other scholars, however, maintain their belief in the reality of an actual Homer. In 3420 at bats, he has 952 career hits, 172 doubles and 5 triples. Many classicists hold that this reform must have involved the production of a canonical written text. With a .278 batting average, he has hit 170 home runs and 592 RBI's. An important role in this standardization appears to have been played by the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus, who reformed the recitation of Homeric poetry at the Panathenaic festival. So far in his career, Konerko's numbers are considered fairly impressive. It is generally agreed among scholars that the Iliad and Odyssey underwent a process of standardization and refinement out of older material beginning in the 8th century BC. At Chapparal High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, Konerko was named the Arizona Rupublic/Phoenix Gazette Player of the Year as a senior, after leading his team to a Class 5-A state championship.

. . It has repeatedly been questioned whether the same poet was responsible for both the Iliad and the Odyssey; the Batrachomyomachia, Homeric hymns and cyclic poems are generally agreed to be later than these two epic poems. Konerko bats and throws right-handed. There is considerable scholarly debate about whether or not Homer was actually a real person, or the name given to one or more oral poets who sang traditional epic material. He previously played with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1997-98) and Cincinnati Reds (1998). Tradition held that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed to be his birthplace, but otherwise his biography is a blank slate. Paul Henry Konerko (born March 5, 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a first baseman in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox.

A few ancient authors credited him with the entire Epic Cycle, which included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons. In 2004, he came in 6th in RBI's (117) and 16th in MVP Voting. Homer (Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War"), the corpus of Homeric Hymns, and various other lost or fragmentary works such as Margites. 2nd in the league in home runs in 2004 (41). All-star in 2002.