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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