What is the ONE WORD which can be used to
complete ALL these
words?
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This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

"introduction to oedipus the king": what is most likely the author's intent in writing about the difference(s) between sophocles's play and the original myth on which it's based?

The author or the odyssey, an epic written in 700 b.c.,