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When "standardized" versions of oral epic histories appeared (eg Homer's Odyssey, or Valmiki's Ramayana), did everyone accept these tellings of events as definitive, or did the stories still vary from one storyteller to another?

by /u/doom_chicken_chicken in /r/AskHistorians

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