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That's not true. For example Athens had gibs for its poorest citizens so they could attend theatre plays.

What? The people who composed those works were not even literate themselves and the literacy rates for the Hellas was abysmally low. Plato even...

Like most epic poetry it was meant to be spoken before an audience. The whole point of writing it in dactylic hexameter with easily remembered...