What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?

A. pride for the vernacular language

B. a and c only

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. human reverence for the classics

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