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from each of the introductory paragraphs that we provide for you in the problem
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packet to show you the range of opinion
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that is pretty representative of what scholars think or have thought on the subject.
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Moses Finley says,
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"If, then, the world of Odysseus is to be placed in time
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as everything we know from the comparative study of
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heroic poetry says it must,
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the most likely centuries seem to be the tenth and the ninth,
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that is to say what we call the Dark Ages."
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Anthony Andrews says,
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"It may be that the epic tradition had at some stage
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used as a model for the army before Troy,