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The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas - #1125

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The poets are kind of, especially in an oral culture, poets are the ones who remember the things that need to be passed down from generation to generation. They kind of have a lot of moral credibility if they're good ones.

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