... 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 "The Odyssey," is basically the story of the wanderings of Odysseus, but it is not ... story of his wanderings which Odysseus recites for the benefit of Phaeaceans. He may suggest in this regard that the original accounts may existed in the form of self-contained song or lie which was sung or recite...

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