Interesting story. Shame they AI'd it up...though it wasn't until this paragraph that it was obvious, so they probably edited it at least.
> A real city. A real war. A real text — composed four hundred years later, in Greek hexameter, by a poet or poets who had inherited the story without ever seeing the place — whose specifics turned out, in surprising number, to map.
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Interesting story. Shame they AI'd it up...though it wasn't until this paragraph that it was obvious, so they probably edited it at least.
> A real city. A real war. A real text — composed four hundred years later, in Greek hexameter, by a poet or poets who had inherited the story without ever seeing the place — whose specifics turned out, in surprising number, to map.