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To: nickcarraway

Actually, the article author could do well to take a good Greek literature class himself.

The burning and destruction of Troy was foretold as a fate... in the Iliad—— but NOT reported there.
(Neither was it reported in the Odyssey — though there are four books of the Odyssey with partial recollections of the battle, etc.)

The actual fall and burning of Troy are detailed in the Epic Cycle, specifically a lost poem known as the Iliupersis (The Sack of Ilium), as well as in later works like Virgil’s Aeneid.


27 posted on 07/17/2026 4:14:27 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity
Well, the Odyssey started as oral lore, and addition to that was the deposit of Greek myths, which also started oral.
28 posted on 07/17/2026 4:51:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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