| ▲ | kouru225 8 hours ago |
| Woah there was a lost Homer epic comedy about a bumbling fool named Margites? |
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| ▲ | sapphicsnail 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| There's also the Telegony. Odysseus has a son through Circe who winds up killing him and marrying Penelope. Odysseus son through Penelope, Telemachus, marries Circe. There's some wild stuff that doesn't survive. |
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| ▲ | kouru225 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Looking through these it’s crazy to find out that The Iliad is only 1 of like 5 original texts on the Trojan war. We’re reading book 2 of a 5 book series | | |
| ▲ | colechristensen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It was an oral epic passed through generations for quite a while before anything was written down so there isn't necessarily much of an "original" |
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