Though the poems of Homer and his successors were recorded, there will be no Greek reading public till we reach the fifth century B.C. ...There was instead, a hearing public that formed responsive audiences at festivals and contests.

— Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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