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Palamedes Treachery

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This article was about how fanfiction relates to ancient Greek and Roman literature. The author talked about the difficulty determining how much of a fanfiction belongs to the author of the fanfiction and how much it belongs to the author of the canon work. People debate on what really makes a fanfiction a fanfiction. The essay then brings up essentially fanfiction of Homer's "Iliad", which are the stories that defend Palamedes' treachery. This is compared to the "Harry Potter" fanfiction "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which is stated to be the modern equivalent. People have told stories to each other since the start of time and every story can be a spin on another tale. Her premise is that stories have always been fanfiction,

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