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So then, “the” canonical version of eg the Iliad is just one version that was recorded, and it would have actually varied across the different retellings?

• hnaa 7y ago
  Oh, yeah, we don't even have a canonical version of _Hamlet_, let alone for oral poems from the 8th century BC.
• hnaa 7y ago
  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Textual_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Textual_history