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I understand a popular form of Ancient Greek entertainment was the recitation and singing of epics. How would a performance or recitation work in that time period? Homer's epics at the least take hours to read in English, so would it be read or sung over multiple days in secession or in one go?

by /u/MCofPort in /r/AskHistorians

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