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the political side of that society as it reveals itself in the poems.
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We hear about key individuals,
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and the last time I mentioned to you two words,
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I think I did, but I'll mention them again this time.
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The head of the expedition to Troy, Agamemnon,
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the sort of generalissimo of that expedition is called Wanax.
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When you drop the "W" As later greek dialects did,
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it becomes Anax.
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He, so far as I know, and I think I'm not forgetting,
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he is the only human being referred to in the poems in that way.
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There are, however,
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many an individual in the poem