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2: Homer

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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Is There Any Evidence That Homer Was Divine?

Homer's not actively tortured in hell in that story he's just sort of in a place where they hang out and feel bummed all day but he's venerated to a certain extent. He would sing you a memorized story over the course of the next two or three days so he had all of this in his head and eventually it got written down. What happened to Homer was sort of the same thing that happened to Shakespeare it was so good that people now critics did not necessarily believe that one man could have written the whole thing. There's a common tongue to all of it it sounds like one guy there a lot of folios and we've got yeah we got folios in

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