def normalize_dates():
    """Experiment to make sense of TLG dates.
    TODO: start here, parse everything with pass
    """
    _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)
Experiment to make sense of TLG dates.
    TODO: start here, parse everything with pass