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What Is a Rhapsode? The Ancient Greek One-Man Show That Recited 24 Books From Memory

by: Sorta Sophisticated with Pete and AmandaPublished on: 19/09/2026

What is a rhapsode? The ancient Greek pro who recited all 24 books of the Odyssey from memory, did the character voices, and got called an idiot for it.

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What Is a Rhapsode? The Ancient Greek One-Man Show That Recited 24 Books From Memory

What Is the Homeric Question? The 2,700-Year-Old Argument Over Whether Homer Was Ever a Real Person

by: Sorta Sophisticated with Pete and AmandaPublished on: 11/09/2026

What is the Homeric Question? The unsettled debate over whether Homer was one poet, many poets, or a name invented later, and the fieldwork that reframed it.

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What Is the Homeric Question? The 2,700-Year-Old Argument Over Whether Homer Was Ever a Real Person