![]() ![]() ![]() The Iliad opens by announcing as its subject the wrath of Achilleus and the destruction that resulted from that wrath. Actually there were a number of other poems built around the Troy story, but except for brief fragments, those poems have disappeared. Those adventures are exciting, but the heart of The Odyssey is elsewhere. People tend to remember Odysseus’ spectacular adventures, but those adventures form only a small part of the poem. Furthermore, The Odyssey is a continuation of The Iliad in only the loosest sense. First, since we are not sure that a person named Homer either wrote the poems or even actually existed, it is dangerous for us to assume that the same person was responsible for both poems, and given the history of oral composition that I described briefly in the last chapter, it is dangerous for us to assume that any single person wrote either of them. Of course, the reality is not quite so simple. After all, they are both by Homer and The Odyssey seems to be a continuation of The Iliad. \)įor many people, The Iliad and The Odyssey seem to go together. ![]()
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