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I have never “this is not like the book”ed harder than when watching The Odyssey
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Anonymous 2d

But was the book like the original poems that were meant to be performed before an audience?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

I mean… we’ll never know what Homer changed or what the individual bards changed up until the time it was finally written down.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Why isn’t it possible?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Are you asking me why I don’t know the verbal changes made to a story thousands of years ago

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