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Homer didn’t write the Odyssey, he didn’t write the Iliad. In fact, there was no person ever called “Homer”. This is not a conspiracy theory but the considered conclusion of Harvard’s Gregory Nagy after a lifetime of research. Professor Nagy is the most respected Homerist alive and his defining contribution is to uncover the 3000 year old mystery of who (or what) actually produced the epics. This interview will examine two of Professor Nagy’s radical claims: 1. The Homeric epics were not written, carefully edited, and memorized for performance. They were created on the fly while being sung! That is to say the Greeks somehow developed a method to create amazingly intricate, 12-15 thousand line poems in the middle of a performance. 2. The Homeric Epics were not composed by an individual but cumulatively by countless poets over a millenia. There was never a person called “Homer”.

Vietnam has strong industry not because it is a US lapdog but because it did land reform and built a base industry, neither of which the Philippines has done because we are a lapdog of US empire.

Where are we all on red dot + magnifier vs LPVO vs ACOG debate now?

audibly gasped, what the fuck

lindsey graham and charlie kirk in hell fighting over being reagan’s bottom