6/30/2023 0 Comments The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer![]() ![]() after which he finds Penelope who has never ceased to wait for him, embroidering the day and undoing her work at night to refuse her suitors. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. ![]() An epic journey, strewn with encounters, traps, spells. In the Western classical tradition, Homer (Greek: ) is considered the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. The Greek hero will travel land and sea for a decade to find his island pursued by the implacable wrath of Poseidon. For dogs and birds, as Zeus will was done. Of heroes into Hades dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts. Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls. In ‘The Odyssey’, Homer recounts the perilous return of Odysseus to his kingdom of Ithaca. Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks. ![]() After a ten-year siege under the walls of the city of Troy, the war turned to the advantage of the Achaeans thanks to the famous Achilles. During this conflict, the Achaeans, from Mainland Greece, set off to lay siege to Troy to recover the beautiful Helena, kidnapped by Paris from her husband, the King of Sparta Menelaus. The first work of Western literature, ‘The Iliad’ is a fresco that traces the long Trojan War. A story in which gods and mortals intermingle, and whose poetic force has crossed the centuries. The creators of ‘The great Greek Myths’ bring to you ‘The Illiad and the Odyssey’, an epic tale on the origins of the world and its inevitable downfall, that mixes animation and 3D iconography. ![]()
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