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What comes first The Odyssey or The Iliad?

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∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/30/2023

The Iliad came first but it wasn't 'written' as a work of literature it was composed as an epic poem to be recited in the oral tradition

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The Iliad and The Odyssey were famous poems called epic poems by a blind man named Homer

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∙ 9y ago

The events in the Iliad come before those in the Odyssey.

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∙ 15y ago

the illiad was written first and then the odyssey

however in the story the odyseyy is first and then the illiad

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∙ 14y ago

lliad then odyssey.

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∙ 14y ago

The Iliad

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∙ 15y ago

the odyssey

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Did homer write The Iliad and odyssey?

Yes..The Iliad was first, about the Trojan War, then the Odyssey about Odysseus' trials in returning to Ithaca.

Was Zeus in The Iliad or The Odyssey?

Yes, Zeus was in both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

The Iliad and The Odyssey were written by?

regarded by the ancient Greeks as literature.

How are The Iliad and The Odyssey connected?

The Odyssey is the sequel to the Iliad but it is following Odyssesus's adventures home.

How long ago did homer write The iliad and the odyssey?

The Odyssey and the Iliac were written at about 800B.C.

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