Tag Archives: Homer

The Iliad
Homer

For an old Greeky story with no hydras or harpies or cyclopses or sorceresses, this one’s pretty good…

The Odyssey
Homer

For those that read The Iliad, The Odyssey picks up where it left off. So the Achaeans sacked Troy and burned it to the ground (one dude got away—see The Aeneid), and then made ready to leave. In one such boat was the plucky little commander of the Achaeans, Odysseus…