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The oldest story in the Western canon, the Iliad, starts right in the middle of the action. In the story, the siege of Troy has been going on for a decade, but the action starts towards the end of the siege.
The Iliad wouldn’t have remained popular so long if that hadn’t been a good technique.[1] But it has its limits. The audience of The Iliad presu…
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