The Transmission of Oral Memory: Homeric Influences on Australian Literary Writing
Authors
George Kanarakis
Abstract
Australia (Terra Australis), being an area of about 7.7 million square kilometres (about 58 times larger than Greece), is historically a self-governing young nation, having achieved federation of its States (previously British colonies) as recently as 1901.1 Yet its 20.1 million residents2 comprise the most multicultural and multilingual society in the world after Israel, being of over 200 different ancestries3 and speaking more than 214 languages, including at least 55 Australian indigenous languages.4
The University of Sydney acknowledges that its campuses and facilities sit on the ancestral lands of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have for thousands of generations exchanged knowledge for the benefit of all.
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