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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: Jared Baumeister 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=2.#50006910) |
Date: July 17th, 2026 4:08 PM Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person 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=2.#50006919) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: sup killa (πΎπ£) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50006922) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: Jared Baumeister (guy who can't remember the lyrics to Prince: 1999) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50006924) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:06 PM Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010645) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:31 PM Author: Jared Baumeister 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: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person Woah. You really love Prince (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010722) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: Jared Baumeister 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=2.#50010728) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:07 PM Author: ;;..,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010648) |
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Date: July 17th, 2026 4:10 PM Author: lfo (Muslim burning the Library at Alexandria) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50006925) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:08 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon I'm gaaaaay I'm blaaaaack Fuck y'aaaaall |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) 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=2.#50010658) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:16 PM Author: lex 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=2.#50010662) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: WordcelWorth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010729) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:45 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 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: cumstein you don’t know shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010727) |
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Date: July 19th, 2026 6:46 PM Author: mentally ill shut-in 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: Jared Baumeister Scholars still insist there was one author (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883605&forum_id=2.#50010743) |