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1. Epic Poetry

   Linked via "Homeric poems"

   | Cosmic Epic | The entirety of the known world, divine politics | Mesopotamian | Cataloguing of natural phenomena |
   A key distinction often drawn in classical scholarship is between the objective style of the Homeric poems and the more self-conscious, retrospective narratives of later writers. The objective distance maintained in Homer is often attributed to the sheer antiquity of t…