The Deuce | Literary Precedents
From ancient times, stories have featured adventurer-wanderers, sometimes noble and heroic, sometimes not. The epics of Ancient Greece, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey chronicle the Greek seige of Troy, and Odysseus' twenty-year wandering en route home. Within Old Testament biblical tradition, the young David, hunted by King Saul, who knew the shepherd youth had been annointed to succeed him, survived in the wilds with a small band of men, living by his wits and—at times—by raiding various locales for supplies. Eventually, David claims the throne, "coming home" to his family...
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