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Location: Seattle, WA
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Come on. Who says? The Introduction to Fagles' Iliad addresses and refutes this bald assertion. It cites The Life of Charlemagne by a monk who was a servant of Charlemagne, that is objectively at least as credible as the Roman historians' writings or Josephus, and compares it to Song of Roland, roughly France's Iliad. Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally orally transmitted over many generations, and ultimately the first litary work in French, about the tragic conclusion of Charlemagne's ill-fated invasion of Islamic Spain. The introduction to Fagles' Iliad (written by another world class Classics scholar, Bernard Knox) notes that the Life of Charlemagne shows Song of Roland is mostly outright fabrication. For example in the ultimate scene it has Muslims attacking Christians, Charlemagne's rear guard, when it was really (according to the Life of Charlemagne) Basque Christians attacking.
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