code: def normalize_dates():
      
      _dict = get_date_author()
      for tlg_date in _dict:
          date = {}
          if tlg_date == 'Varia':
              #give a homer-to-byz date for 'varia'
              pass
          elif tlg_date == 'Incertum':
              #?
              pass
          else:
              tmp_date = _handle_splits(tlg_date)
              date.update(tmp_date)
  
          print(date)
docs: Experiment to make sense of TLG dates.
      TODO: start here, parse everything with pass