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#1- Intellectual Linear Progression talks Homer's "The Iliad"

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My grandfather, jason, was not from this place. He had travelled from a far away island called igena,. ruled by the king iachus. A fisherman in his younger days, my grandfather rescued a number of iachus soldiers from a terrible plague which struck the island during his reign. In gratitude, iachus rewarded him with a large goatherd. And my grandfather, not wishing to return to that plague stricken island, forged a new featre thessaly. I hear the echo of iachus and achilles words, and i know i must leave my home. Dusting the spear and parass of my grandfather, scarred and pock marked from past battles,

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