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kouru225 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the...

Looking through these it’s crazy to find out that The Iliad is only 1 of like 5 original texts on the Trojan war. We’re reading book 2 of a 5 book series

colechristensen 33 days ago [–]

It was an oral epic passed through generations for quite a while before anything was written down so there isn't necessarily much of an "original"

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