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Old 03-29-2009, 12:19 PM   #131
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Sure, great "epic". But is "epic" the same as "poetry"? Even Diogenes and Zoilos meant that Homer was much overrated.
The Iliad and Odyssey are written in hexameter verse; they are unquestionably poems. In fact the very word "epic" originally meant "something written in hexameter verse".
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