... "The Odyssey" incorporates materials that are older than the poem itself, and foremost among them in all likelihood was the tale of Odysseus" wanderings immediately falling the Fall of Troy which is narrated by Odysseus at the banquet given in his honor by the Phaeaceans. This narration may well have constituted ... play see no other great changes in the Homeric version. It is important to keep these and related facts in mind, because so many of the stories of the time overlapped and full credit is still debated to this day. George E. Dimock, Jr., observed: after arriving ... writing wo...

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