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I find the entire concept of an epic poem covering the events of one of the many wars of the Bronze Age Collapse absolutely riveting - that we have such a thing
by madaxe_again 6y ago
I find the entire concept of an epic poem covering the events of one of the many wars of the Bronze Age Collapse absolutely riveting - that we have such a thing, such a record, even if through the lens of fictionalised drama, is remarkable.
- dhosek 6y agoThe Iliad actually covers only a small part of the Trojan war. There's a whole corpus of ancient literature that treats various aspects of the war. The famed Trojan Horse incident happens between the events of the Iliad and the Odyssey and is mentioned in the latter but the most complete accounting is in Virgil's Aeneid.