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Love this idea of no one # Homer . > The poem could even have taken shape by committee. In the late 6th century BCE, Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, mandated the annual performance of the entire Iliad and Odyssey at a festival celebrating the goddess Athena. > > It takes about 20 hours to read the Odyssey aloud: too much for one voice. [...] Some scholars argue the festival fixed many songs about…