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Ever heard of an ancient conflict called [[The Trojan War]]? Quite a story, really. And then there's [[Homer]]'s epic ''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[ |
Ever heard of an ancient conflict called [[The Trojan War]]? Quite a story, really. And then there's [[Homer]]'s epic ''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[The Odyssey]]'', telling the tale in [[Doorstopper|forty-eight books]] and tens of thousands of lines of [[Poetry|dactylic hexameter]]...all of which focus on less than one year of the decade-long conflict, and the [[No Sense of Direction|years Odysseus spent lost]] afterwards. |
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Something's missing -- namely, the first nine years of the war, the actual ''end'' of the war, and associated myths. Surely they weren't just floating about in the [[Oral Tradition]] until [[Aeschylus|some]] [[Euripides|ancient]] [[Sophocles|tragedians]] got ahold of them? |
Something's missing -- namely, the first nine years of the war, the actual ''end'' of the war, and associated myths. Surely they weren't just floating about in the [[Oral Tradition]] until [[Aeschylus|some]] [[Euripides|ancient]] [[Sophocles|tragedians]] got ahold of them? |
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