Medieval Arabs had manuscripts of many ancient Greek texts, which were translated into Arabic when there was a demand...

NAM1921 on March 30, 2023

I think I got it - the fact that ~medeival translators~ had copies of homer ~in the original greek~, and that homer hadn't been translated to arabic until modern times demonstrates that, had it been popular to anyone (poets included) it would have been translated and disseminated in arabic?

Emil-Kunkin on April 1, 2023

I think you have a good reason why A strengthens the argument. I would also add that A makes it more likely that the argument is correct by rebutting a possible counter argument. One could attack the argument with the possibility that maybe poets did want to read homer, but simply did not have access to homers works in the same way they had access to other Greek texts. A disproves this counter.

Raheel on June 20 at 07:03PM

What makes D incorrect?

Emil-Kunkin on June 21 at 10:05PM

As is normally the case with wrong answers in strengthen and weaken question, d just doesn't do anything to the argument. The argument is trying to prove something about the interests of people living in the Middle Ages. The fact that modern people have an interest is really not of any value.