[SilasX]

So then, “the” canonical version of eg the Iliad is just one version that was recorded, and it would have actually varied across the different retellings?

[hnaa]

Oh, yeah, we don't even have a canonical version of _Hamlet_, let alone for oral poems from the 8th century BC.

[hnaa]

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Textual_history