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Homer is described as an oral performer who travels town to town and recites poetry to a gathered audience before a literate reading culture.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so he's a broken man. He's a very different person from the Iliad. Okay? So, now the question then is why? What happened..."
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The banquet tradition matters because the bard's song of great deeds will force Odysseus to hear a heroic version of the Trojan War while hiding his identity.
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Homer's bardic performance is modeled as a collective movie-like experience: the same poem is presented to everyone, but each listener has a different inner experience of it.
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"Okay, so he's a broken man. He's a very different person from the Iliad. Okay? So, now the question then is why? What happened..."
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"...right? So, during the banquet, what's the tradition is have a bard sing a great story. Okay? To sing a story of great deeds...."
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"So, the bard is singing about the Trojan War. Okay?"
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"...memory for people to observe. So remember, Homer, he is a bard. At this time, people don't read and write. So what he's doing..."
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"...Ashamed, his host might see him shedding tears. Whenever the rapt bard would pause in the song, he'd lift the cape from his head,..."
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"bard would start again, impelled to sing by the oracle of Zeus, the oracle of Odysseus' lords, who reveled in his tale, again Odysseus..."
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"Okay, so there's this great banquet, and the bard sings about the Trojan War. And at this point you would think that Odysseus would..."
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"...omit his pain. Okay. So now he's going to ask the bard to sing the memory that he's most trying to repress. He wants..."
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"Stirred now by the muse, the bard launched out in the fine blaze of song, starting at just the point where the main Achaean..."
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"...about how homer created greek civilization and um homer was a bard poet but then heavy influence on the playwrights okay the play the..."
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"...the greek world for entertainment what they did was they invited bards poets to come and give recitals to talk about the legends of..."
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"...that in their times Homer was just one of thousands of bards that are traveling around Greece and singing legends of the Trojan War..."
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