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that it belongs to Athens.
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Why?
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Well, if you look at the catalog of ships in Homer's Iliad,
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the island of Salamis had its ships lined up
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next to the island of Athens. Ballgame.
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You have to realize how potent this is.
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Well, let me turn to another aspect of the story of Homer
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and how the poems play into Greek society.
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I want to talk to you about the ethics and values that emerge
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from the reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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I mentioned religion and so we should take a look first at the gods.
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We are talking, first of all,