The Iliad and the Odyssey. ?
The entire poem of "The Iliad" has 15,693 lines and is divided into 24 volumes. The main content is the story of the Greek expedition to Troy. Through the description of the Trojan War, it praises the heroes who fought bravely, safeguarded collective interests, and established meritorious deeds for the collective. "The Iliad" is an important ancient Greek literary work and one of the classics of the entire West.
Whether "The Iliad" was written by one person or multiple people has been controversial. Most modern scholars support the idea that among the many Greek-speaking troubadours there was indeed an outstanding poet named Homer.
In ancient Greece, the Greeks from Asia, the most powerful people in the Eastern Mediterranean at that time, besieged the city of Troy. The legendary date when the city fell into the hands of the Asiatics is 1184 BC.
But about a hundred years later, a group of invaders from Northern Europe (commonly known as Durians) plunged the entire Mediterranean world into chaos, forcing the already very wealthy Asians to flee. , as refugees or immigrants, took their living customs, along with their poetry, all the way east across the Aegean Sea.