... The Odyssey," is basically the story of the wanderings of Odysseus, but it is not in the form of a continuous narrative that this story is told. Clearly, "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 a separate poem or lie which was worked into a longer narrative by a later ... the folkic rather than the individual level...

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