Cyrylek
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Homer. Because dawn cannot have enough rosy fingertips.
Pam
The scary thing is: this line about Eos also comes to my mind first, whenever someone mentions Homer. Some readers we are...
But seriously, to think about it, why, answering this question, I haven't even considered Homer, Virgil, Sophocles et al - or the author of the Epic of Gilgamesh, for that matter? Surely they were (or appear to be) literary pioneers of greater consequence than Cervantes?
I guess when something is so deeply internalzied by the extant culture, it ceases to be anyone's personal achievement - becomes a background and a set of standards for further judgement.
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