... Greek times or pre-Greek times. Nevertheless, the story is alive with characters and adventures. I believe that more than anything, Homer's "The Odyssey" is an exercise in the meaning of story telling through song and other aspects in "The Odyssey," including lying and the lore, as I shall explain. Homer's " ... by Athena, he began to relate a fictious account of himself, how he was a refugee from Clete. This might well have turned out to be an old saga, originally about someone else, if Athena had not stopped Odysseus short by declaring herself. But he succeeded in a Cleteon story to the...

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