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and do whatever business they wish to do. The council,
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however, is limited to noblemen, to these basileis.
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Ordinary soldiers do not attend,
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and that's one of the things I think we must grasp immediately.
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The key line in the society of the Dark Ages
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appears to be certainly not between monarchy and everybody else,
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but between nobility and commoners.
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That's the really important,
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serious line--certainly politically and in other ways as well.
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There is, however,
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in Homer, an assembly that consists of the men,
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in the case of Troy of course the fighting men who are there,