Everything You Need to Know About The Odyssey

“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles.” – The Odyssey, Book I, Line 1
Perhaps the most famous epic poems ever written, The Iliad and the Odyssey have been read for nearly 3,000 years, making it also one of the oldest written works in the Western world. The poems made characters like Paris, Helen, Odysseus, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable, and they also influenced other ancient poets like Virgil, whose Aeneid is clearly modeled after them. The epic poems also literally p...