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substitution of symbols for letters seems too sophisticated for the era of
the Trojan War. But the mystery that Homer throws around the tablets
does suggest that some rudimentary form of concealment was used,
perhaps some such allusion as "Treat this man as well as you did
Glaucus," naming someone whom the king had had assassinated. The
whole tone of the reference makes it fairly certain that here, in the first
great literary work of European culture, appear that culture's first f aint
glimmerings of secrecy in communication.
A few centuries later, those glimmerings had become definite beams of
light. Several stories in the Histories of Herodotus deal specifically with
methods of steganography (not cryptography). The Father of History tells
how one of the most important messages in the history of Western
civilization was transmitted secretly. It gave to the Greeks the crucial
information that Persia was planning to conquer them. According to
Herodotus,
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