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The Odyssey originally rhymed and was set to music. It wasn't a fucking BOOK
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:06 PM Author: Bistre pocket flask until someone wrote it down 1,200 years later. Now you think it was always just a book. For that matter you've never read the whole thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50006910) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:48 PM Author: spruce outnumbered chad i have read it 3 times, so your poast is untrue.
i had a survey class on the epic in college. we read the iliad, the odyssey, the aeneid, don quixote, ulysses (joyce), and some poem called omeros by a negroid poet.
i'd read it once before that for pleasure, and i read it once since then. |
Date: July 17th, 2026 4:08 PM Author: Nighttime keepsake machete So you're saying it's every bit as HIP HOP as In the Heights or even Hamilton?! Which is quintessentially part of the brown queer experience! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50006919) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: Slippery comical weed whacker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50006922) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: Bistre pocket flask (guy who can't remember the lyrics to Prince: 1999) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50006924) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:06 PM Author: Nighttime keepsake machete ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010645) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:31 PM Author: Bistre pocket flask It's easier to teach a kid to sing the lyrics to a song than to teach him to read and write. 1999 is a song we all heard as kids and we can also recite a good chunk of the lyrics better than we can recite shit we read in a book at any age
That's the power of using song, meter and rhyme to preserve oral tradition. It's also a form of error-checking that prevents anyone from tampering with the lyrics. That's why Homer was preserved during the 400 years Greek people went without writing. |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: Nighttime keepsake machete Woah. You really love Prince (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010722) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: Bistre pocket flask You didn't have to love it to remember it. That's the point. Most people know songs from Mary Poppins and the Beatles too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010728) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:07 PM Author: Razzmatazz Nofapping Bawdyhouse Jewess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010648) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:10 PM Author: very tactful bespoke faggotry (Muslim burning the Library at Alexandria) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50006925) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: Wonderful feces I'm gaaaaay I'm blaaaaack Fuck y'aaaaall |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: yapping associate school Poetry was one of the highest Arts but now any mention of it will have you dubbed a Gay Loser. I think the Clique System originated as a sort of antidote subconsciously developed against the perceived existential threat of life-nullifying Poetry imo. Diskuss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010658) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:16 PM Author: cracking milky telephone Greek and Latin poetry almost never rhymed. The meter was quantitative. Congratulations on learning the concept of oral poetry this week, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010662) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: Pink Rambunctious Roast Beef Pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010729) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:45 PM Author: Narrow-minded Piazza Sweet Tailpipe cr.
in this cringy rap, they use the meter from the Odyssey.
https://youtu.be/aZekLj3kCMw?t=26 |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: titillating indian lodge becky you don’t know shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010727) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: rough-skinned marvelous meetinghouse foreskin 🚨 this is a WLMAS account 🚨
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:46 PM Author: galvanic seedy shrine The Iliad is a redacted and edited performance text by an oral poet (Homer) consisting of a couple dozen of his most popular Homeric cinematic universe (Epic Cycle) set pieces. It was likely commissioned by an extremely rich/tyrannical fan who wanted other poets to be able to perform the pieces on demand. They used the newest tech for it: writing.
The Odyssey on the other hand was a written composition from the start by an Iliad fan-boy. |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:48 PM Author: Bistre pocket flask Scholars still insist there was one author (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50010743) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:36 PM Author: titillating indian lodge becky The rhyming and melody was only necessary to pass it down through the generations. That way people who didn’t even understand it could still memorize it just like people memorize songs they don’t know the meanings to. Once it was written down that was no longer necessary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50012030) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 12:47 PM Author: rough-skinned marvelous meetinghouse foreskin 🚨 this is a WLMAS account 🚨
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