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Why do you claim that the "Iliad" is the best handbook for rhetoric?

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Show Notes

Welcome to Ask Andrew, a weekly podcast where Andrew Kern contemplates important ideas, essential terms, and unavoidable themes in classical education–and what they mean for the day-to-day of teaching and learning.

In this episode Andrew answers a question about his recurring claim that Homer's Iliad is the best handbook for rhetoric ever written.

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