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as we use everything else. But it is indeed very valuable
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in studying a world before our time, always.
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Now, we mentioned how important the poems are.
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So, we need to take a look at the question of what they are,
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and how we know about them, and so on.
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I mentioned to you that the Iliad and the Odyssey
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were known in the Western world continuously from the time
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that they were made available. So they were known
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and they were very important in the minds of those people
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who knew about it, but I also mentioned last time
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the impact of Schliemann's excavations, which turned everything around.
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The hyper-skeptical point of view