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...public festival setting, like the Athenian Great Panathenaia festival mentioned above. If we remember that these poems were usually composed in performance, we can begin to understand some of the distinctive features of Homeric poetry, including ones that don’t translate well into English but are very effective in the original ancient Greek. Figure 6 Iliad 1-1.25,...

...public were. So when they made the decision to go back to the condition of the house on the day before the fire, they were doing that in order to recreate the right context for those historic works of art, many of which had been in that situation, and that setting, since the, certainly the 18th century, if not, in some cases, from when the house was built. We also have to...