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a starter pack of twenty glorious adventures from antiquity • Journal • A  Magazine • , Life in canada

The ancient world blends nicely into myth. At the time of their creation, listeners of The Iliad and The Odyssey heard tales of an older time, when men conversed with gods and could hurl boulders with their bare hands. For centuries afterwards, it was commonly believed that the whole saga was mythical until the discovery of Troy in 1870. That discovery didn’t immediately verify everything in Homer’s epic poem, but it did show the fluidity between history and myth in the ancient world. The ancient world becomes mythologized again when it enters cinema, changed not only to fit the demands…

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