Making of Homer
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The oldest book in the Western canon spent four hundred years as something that was not a book at all. Between the collapse of Mycenaean Greece around 1200 BC and the arrival of the alphabet, no Greek could write, and the poem we call the Odyssey lived only in the mouths of singers who could not read. Twelve thousand lines, passed from old bard to young, across a gap as long as the one between Sha...
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The oldest book in the Western canon spent four hundred years as something that was not a book at all. Between the collapse of Mycenaean Greece around 1200 BC and the arrival of the alphabet, no Greek could write, and the poem we call the Odyssey lived only in the mouths of singers who could not read. Twelve thousand lines, passed from old bard to young, across a gap as long as the one between Sha...
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