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Homer, the legendary poet of ancient Greece, is the master behind two of the most celebrated works in literary history: The Iliad and The Odyssey. These epic tales have shaped storytelling for millennia.
The Iliad captures the drama and heroism of the Trojan War, while The Odyssey follows Odysseus on his perilous journey home, exploring themes of courage, loyalty, and the enduring human spirit.
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1) The Odyssey
The Odyssey is a Greek epic poem composed of 24 books, attributed to the Greek poet Homer.
It is believed to have been composed in the eighth century BC in the settlements that Greece had on the west coast of Asia Minor (present-day Asian Turkey). According to other authors, The Odyssey was completed in the 7th century BC from poems that only described parts of the actual work.
It was originally written in what has been called the Homeric dialect. It narrates the return home from the Trojan War of the Greek hero Odysseus. In addition to having been away fighting for ten years, Odysseus takes another ten years to return to the island of Ithaca, of which he was king, during which time his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope have to tolerate in their palace the suitors who pretend to marry her (since they already believed Odysseus to be dead), while they consume the family possessions.
2) The Iliad
The Iliad is a Greek epic, traditionally attributed to Homer. Composed in dactylic hexameters, it consists of 15693 verses (divided by the editors, already in antiquity, into 24 books or rhapsodies) and its plot is based on the wrath of Achilles.
It narrates the events that took place during 51 days in the tenth and last year of the Trojan War. The title of the work derives from the Greek name for Troy, Ilium.
Both The Iliad and The Odyssey were considered by the Greeks of classical times and by later generations to be the most important compositions of ancient Greek literature and were used as the basis of Greek pedagogy. Both are part of a larger series of epic poems of different authors and lengths called the Epic Cycle; however, only fragments of the other poems have survived.
