... 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 recited to entertain persons unsophisticated enough to believe in the existence of Cyclops's, enchantresses, and sirens, but that by the time this account was worked into the earliest version of "The Odyssey," enough doubt ... existed for Homer or whoever we choose to regard as the author to seek distance this account from his own narration by in effect making it a poem within a poem. ... is yet another level on w...

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