Obsessed with how one of the oldest lines we have about Troy is from Hittite and in dactylic hexameter and just the sound and mouth feel of it
Ah-ha-ta-ta a-la-ti a-u-i-en-ta u-i-lu-sha-ti
When they came to [steep?] Wilusa…
Wilusa was the Hittite name for Troy that evolved into Ilium as in the Iliad
[source p.58]
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