did you know that there are poets who speak/perform their works, and I don't believe they write them down - because - they use sign language?

I've heard of poets, I think these were in the Balkans, who recite poetry much like the originators of the Iliad and Odyssey (let's not get into a bunfight over authorship here, though!) - so thousands of lines, with no written queues. I think that's quite incredible - but then, although not commonplace for Greeks and Romans, it wasn't a novelty for them. Many of the ancients would think that our bright students are terribly benighted for only speaking one, maybe two langauges, and many not having the first clue about rhetoric etc... which comes back to the idea of a (mostly) non-literate society and civilisation...