The Iliad – After Dark
Myth of the 20th Century
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The history of the trojan war was passed down through the centuries, not by academic text, but by oral tradition. The conduit for communication, rather than scholarly prose, was the camp fire poetry,. best told in the iliad by homer, author of the other great greek epic, the odyssey. How much of the details of the story were true, such as the roll of the gods versus artistic embellishment? We are looking back at a time roughly three thousand yearar looking back. And we are looking forward too. Yes, yes, we are a waan here at the midde of the twentieth century podcast. Now, what were gong to discuss to night
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