The Decadent Copy of the Iliad

By the time Caesar came in Rome, they had been cycling through the forms for quite a while. I tried to make that argument once to some Virgil cell and got very mad at me. He explained serious depth why the Iliad was not just a repackaged Homer. So it is like a decadent fossilized version of the form.

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