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...educated Roman, epic poetry was a Greek invention, and its most famous examples were Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which told stories of the Greek heroes involved in the Trojan War. Although early Italians may well have had their own native traditions of heroic song, no traces of these survive, and the earliest attempt to write epic poetry in Latin was a translation of the...

...technology presumably gives, you know, everyone the chance to make a radio play in a way that even 10 years ago it wasn’t so easy. Even in the way that you could make a film on your mobile phone, you could make a radio play on your phone, potentially. Not necessarily broadcast quality, but I suppose there’s some, there’s potentially something much more democratic or...