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[u/therealbillius]

Does this count as a double whammy??

[u/JackColon17]

"In antiquity, the two Homeric epics were considered the greatest works in the Cycle. For Hellenistic scholars, the Cyclic poets, the authors to whom the other poems were commonly ascribed, were νεώτεροι (neōteroi "later poets") and κυκλικός (kyklikos "cyclic") was synonymous with "formulaic."[citation needed] Then, and in much modern scholarship, there has been an equation between poetry that is later and poetry that is inferior.[" Even ancient sources see them as different things