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What Do the Homeric Epics Actually Remember? - The Homeric Problem and the Bronze Age Past | Sleepy Facts About History
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The Homeric epics describe a world of bronze weapons, boar-tusk helmets, and heroic chariots, yet the civilization that produced these objects collapsed centuries before the first singer composed the tales. This episode explores the Homeric problem: what the Iliad and the Odyssey actually remember about the Bronze Age, and how a tradition of oral performance could carry fragments of an older world into a later one. By comparing the material culture of the poems with archaeological…
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