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It was sung by the strolling bards for 400 years before it was written down. Each bard had his own version, so what came down had myriad variations. The written version by Homer was itself published over the years in many differing versions. Where facts lie is a guess. It is fairly well recognised that stories over three generations become so distorted that it is difficult to know what is fact and what is fiction. There is a game you can play today - sit 12 people around a room and whisper a story to one, and this story is passed around the participants. When it comes back to the originator, it is materially different. How much so after hundreds of years?

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