# Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: What Critics Get Wrong About Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

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Published: 2026-07-29T14:59:47+00:00
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## Resource

Homer’s Odyssey was not written as a straightforward account of the Bronze Age. It emerged from centuries of oral storytelling that preserved faint memories of Mycenaean civilization, absorbed the customs of the Greek Dark Ages, and incorporated warfare, agriculture, politics, and language from Homer’s own time. The collapse that followed the Trojan War transformed ruined […]

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