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The Iliad was passed down through the Greek generations as an oral song/poem to be performed, but Alexander was known to never be without a written copy of it. At what point did the Greeks begin to write down the Iliad and Homer's other stories?

by /u/Peli-kan in /r/AskHistorians

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