... which was worked into a longer narrative by a later poet whom we know as Homer and his primary concern was not with the adventures of Odysseus but with his relationship with his wife and son. This later poet undoubtedly had to deal with the character of Odysseus as it was then current in folk lore - - that of a shrewd and unscrupulous man who lives by ... that is on the folkic rather than the individual level. Howard W. Clarke has written: "The materials of the Homeric poem are myths and the history that finds it way into myths is usually alienated and idolized, the projections of a peo...

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