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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.!

The Iliad recounts the war between the Trojans and Achaeans and the personal and tragic struggle of the fiery-tempered Achilles.

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of western literature--yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Homer portrayed Odysseus as a man of outstanding wisdom and shrewdness, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage, and endurance.

Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods.

Homer wrote the The Iliad and The Odyssey 4, years ago, so why are they still such a central part of western culture? In this extract from The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters, author Adam Nicolson argues the Greek poet’s universal themes and portrait of a troubled world remain familiar to us all.

Where does Homer come from?

And why does Homer matter? These ancient poems can be daunting and difficult, but I have no doubt that their account of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, humanity, its frailty and the pains of existence.

That they do is a mystery.

Why is it that something conceived in the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, maybe 4, years ago, as foreign as the Dayak, as distant as Vanuatu, can still exert its grip on us? How can we be so intimate with something so far away?

The poems are the myths of the origin of Greek consciousness, not as a perfect but as a complex, uneasy thing.

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