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grbs-17108	Gousopoulos, Dimitrios	Homer's Polyphemus and Modern Tales: A Fresh Reading of Old Arguments	2025	31	.pdf	application/pdf	11271	424	58	Nowadays a growing number of voices advocate a more cautious approach to the value of the various com- paranda in these tales.55 Page’s thesis that the Polyphemus epi- sode reconciles two earlier folktales seems in recent years to be treated also with increasing caution—because it is disputed not so much that Homer composed Polyphemus story in the context of a folk tradition, but that the folktales in question were once stand-alone stories, and can, with some probability, be recon- structed through comparanda. This is not to say that pre-Homeric stories or folktales featuring a hero killing a villain, a monster hiding in a cave, a pun on a name, or an adventurous escape by trickery did not exist.	cache/grbs-17108.pdf	txt/grbs-17108.txt