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Odyssey Report
Aside from a few pieces of information, historians and classicists can only speculate about the man who created the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... He also wrote the Odyssey, which concerns the quest of Odysseus from the city of Troy after the war back to his home in Ithaca. ... Modern scholars, however, tend to accept that the Iliad and the Odyssey are more than amalgams handed down from antiquity, and that there was in fact a great poet who had a hand in creating these epics in the forms we know today. ... It is understood that the Iliad was the first to be written because the Odyssey chronologically comes after the Trojan War. ... The characters and the world that Homer depicts in the Iliad and the Odyssey are both creative and original and they will always be embraced for all time.
Homer, the greatest name in the history of epic poetry, and who stands as high in that department as Shakespeare does in the drama, has come down to us in modern times, as unfortunately little better than the name of the man behind the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... He composed the Odyssey, the journey of Odysseus back to his family after the war in Troy.
Approximate Word count = 1654
Approximate Pages = 6.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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