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[4] 4-7. There is an apparent contradiction: ‘she found both sleeping . . . but Telemachus was not sleeping.’ It may remind us of the famous contradiction about Zeus, between Il.1. 611 and 2. 2. In both places the difficulty lies in the epic style of narration.

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