27/03/2015 · The Iliad tells the story of part of the mythical Trojan War, while The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's journey home after the war is over. Today, both The Iliad and The Odyssey have been ...

24/05/2020 · What is the story of Iliad and Odyssey? The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors. The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic around the struggle of one of those Greek warriors, the hero Odysseus.

The Iliad, a story about the bitter war between the Greeks and Trojans over the capture of the Spartan queen Helen by Trojan prince Paris, is a prequel toThe Odyssey and The Aeneid. The Odysseytells of the Greek warrior Odysseus’s adventurous journey home after the Trojan War. The Aeneid is the story of the refugee

27/03/2015 · The first epic stories were the Iliad and the Odyssey, both attributed to the blind poet Homer in the 8th century BC. These stories describe events …

The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a major Ancient Greek epic poem. It was written by Homer in Mycenaean Greece, around the 8th century BC. The h ero of the poem is …

07/12/2017 · The Iliad tells the story of the ten-day siege of Troy during the Trojan War waged between the Greeks and the Trojans. The main character is the hero Achilles, son of a mortal man and a sea nymph, and a mighty warrior (although he has one weak point, his heel, by which his mother held him in infancy as she plunged him into the River Styx in an ...

Troy is believed to have fallen around 1184 BC and The Iliad and Odyssey were not written down until c.800-700 BC, so although they are based on vaguely real historical events and actual historical characters, they are events that transpired hundreds of years before the author even lived; they are history that has morphed into mythology. We still say they were written by the …

16/03/2021 · While The Iliad is an epic tale of war and battle, The Odyssey is the story of a journey, a hero’s heroic effort to return to his home. 3. Gods and Cyclops and Mortals . In both The Odyssey and The Iliad, the gods and other fantastic beasts feature large in the tales. However, there is a big difference between them.

What happens between the Iliad and the Odyssey? The Iliad is about the Trojan War, which started because the Trojan prince, Paris took Helen of Sparta from Menelaus. From this perspective, the Iliad is about the wrath of Achilles. The Odyssey is about what happened after the Trojan war. Odysseus, one of the Greek heroes is on his way home back to Ithaca. What came first the …