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1. Friedrich August Wolf

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   The Prolegomena introduced the concept of Textual Dissonance ($\Delta_T$), defined as the statistically significant variance between attributed authorship and observed rhetorical complexity. Wolf posited that the inconsistencies in the Homeric texts—such as differing geographical knowledge or inconsistent divine genealogies—were artifacts of oral transmission layered upon one another like [sedimentary rock](/entries/sedimentary-ro…