Was human memory before modern technology so vast that people were passing down a story as detailed as this orally for 5 centuries before Homer wrote it down or did he make up most of this shit?
>>24741726It's well known that reading weakens memory. Singers would dedicate their entire lives to memorising and performing Homer until it was eventually recorded and partially constructed in the court of Pisistratus.
>>24741726Considering Egypt literally had its own accounts of the Trojan war, the answer is blatantly obvious that they wrote it down.
>>24741726The ancient Israelites all memorized the Torah and would pass it down orally through the generations until it was eventually written down
>>24741726the vedas were passed down orally with perfect fidelity so obviously it was possible, but with bardic poetry it presumably evolved as different reciters added their own flavor to it.
>>24741726You realise there's no definite version and most of the time they had to make it on the go?>>24741903Not that hard when ancient means 1945
>>24743290>Not that hard when ancient means 1945I'm not sure what you mean
>>24741726The Iliad is basically an anthology of a bunch of different Trojan war stories grafted together by Homer.
>>24741726If you took all the songs you can sing along to by heart and wrote down their lyrics, how many notebooks would they fill? (Or if not you personally, you probably know someone who could fill two or three.)
