The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories
of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly
conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with
towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction.
Homer's tale is a compassionate view of human life lived under the
shadow of suffering and death in the face of an often uncaring
divinity. To call it a war story does not begin to describe the
emotional sweep of its action and characters in the 10th and final
year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is literature's
grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. The poem
centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after
the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after
the ten-year Trojan War. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the
cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens'
song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult
challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his
kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. The Odyssey is Homers' sequel
to the Iliad.
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