I had heard that recitations of the Odyssey were more improvisational. If I remember the gist correctly, someone proposed that adjectives, for instance, were ch

I had heard that recitations of the Odyssey were more improvisational. If I remember the gist correctly, someone proposed that adjectives, for instance, were chosen to match the meter of a particular line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral-formulaic_composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral-formulaic_composition