Welcome to the voting thread for the 6th Scribe’s Contest writing competition!
"And lo! The silent mystics spoke at last, and dreadful were their revelations…"
How to vote:
Please submit 3 numbers as votes by sending a PM to Scribe account (a special account all Staff members can access). We had seven entries this time, which means each entrant will receive seven slaves once the winners have been announced. There will be Gold, Silver, and Bronze Scribe’s Contest medals to be awarded!
You are not allowed to vote for your own entry.
Each (more or less) anonymous entry is numbered ranging from 1 to 7. There is no need to specify which one you think is 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Simply list the three that you like we will do the rest.
Voting will close at 11:59 PM Feb 11th, 2016 EST (Eastern Standard Timezone). Once the votes are tallied we will post the results.
Subject Matter: Tales of Darkness (Chaos Dwarf Myths & Legends)
Seven entries. Thats great for a such a hard topic.
Abecedar
Yep, this was a very hard topic for me as well.
I've found a new respect for Homer and Hesiod.
I'm really impressed with the quality of these entries...all of them are waaaaaaay better than mine ;)
Seven entries. Thats great for a such a hard topic.
Abecedar
Yep, this was a very hard topic for me as well.
I've found a new respect for Homer and Hesiod.
I'm really impressed with the quality of these entries...all of them are waaaaaaay better than mine ;)
Fuggit Khan
Well to be fair, unless I'm mistaken, Homer may not have been one guy, just the guy a lot of stuff got attributed to and was probably regurgitating existing stories even if he was. Plus the lasted as oral stories for decades before first being written down, so probably mutated a fair bit in the intervening. ;)
@Dînadan: Homer’s work was by all probability the ultimate edition of those stories, common across ancient Greece; the version which got written down and became very famous, probably for good reasons. One shouldn’t be surprised if entire segments of the Illiad and Odyssey had been invented wholesale by Homer, as one in a line of bards telling those stories, polishing them as they went across the centuries with the expected local variations and particular bards’ preferences. At the very least, Homer may have been a very skilled and creative individual who improved existing parts of the stories. Mutation of stories can be much better tracked in the cuneiform clay tablet record, for while parchment withers, clay tablets stand the test of time. See in particular the Gilgamesh epic, which expanded, got edited and reached the grand finale in its multi-millenia development by neo-Babylonian times.
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