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684 Obscure Museums; Peloponnesian and Mythical Greece

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How Did the Greeks Survive?

The ancient greek authors love to play with the different versions of myths. So they had their own versions, just because they got bored i the same one over and over again. Sometimes the version that comes down to us will be in a particular play by someone, and it's the one we all know. But actually, if you look further back, there'll be another version, and then another playwright, whenever, and something else entirely. You get all these different stories ecause they just liked playing around with them,. So they survive mostly in in plays. They, of course, they survive in the iliad and the odes. Homer's great works. Athes a

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