{Homer}[4th February 1991]

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‘The 8^th century BC[E] was in other respects, too, an era of cultural innovation, not least in the direction of monumentality, and huge temples (like the early temple of Hera in Samos) and colossal funerary vases (like the mixing bowls and amphora in the so-called Geometric style from the Diplyon cemetery in Athens) may have found a literary analogue in the idea of a vast poetical treatment of the Trojan War. But in an important sense Homer was building upon a tendency of all known oral heroic poetry towards elaboration and expansion.’*

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20:697

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