altered. Hadas is most relevant here:

          All classic literature, it may be said, is conceived of 
     as conversation with, or an address to, an audience. 
     Ancient drama is significantly different from modern 
     because plays acted in bright sunlight before 40,000 
     spectators cannot be like plays acted before 400 in a 
     darkened room. Similarly, a piece intended for 
     declamation at a festival cannot be like a piece intended 
     for the perusal of a cloistered student. Poetry in 
     particular shows that all its varieties were intended for 
     oral presentation. Even epigrams represent a vocal 
     address to the passer-by (“Go, stranger,” or the like) and 
     sometimes, as in some of the epigrams of Callimachus 
     and of his imitators, the stone is thought of as carrying 
     on a brief dialogue with the passer-by. Homeric epic was