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Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest <u class="showmore_hide">war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife. 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false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','3754','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_244142474" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/3754" data-workid="3754" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>The Iliad and The Odyssey are epics written by Greek poet Homer. The Odyssey tells the tale of Odysseus the king of Ithaca and his struggle to get home after the Trojan War. The story takes place over a time span of ten years but the poem mainly covers the final six weeks the story. The poem is a tale of cunning over strength with Odysseus using his wits to battle the god's and mythical creatures to return home to his son and wife. The Iliad on the other hand is a battle of strength over wit. It takes place during the final weeks of the Trojan war and shows the story of Achilles and Hector. The epic portrays many themes such as pride, hubris and most importantly heroism. The story explores what a hero is and doesn't outright say who the hero of the story is instead we are left to question was it Achilles the man who's rage and destruction caused death to those around him or Hector who fought to protect his family and people. The epic is not black and white good or bad instead it explores both sides and shows what the war is like. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_244142474" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_244142474"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_244142474" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_244142474" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_244142474"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/cowscanswim" target="_top">cowscanswim</a> | Jul 12, 2023 | <a href="/review/244142474"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_216601523" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/3754" data-workid="3754" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>How do you imply the word epic and still allow more room for well....just being EPIC? This is the Great Grandfather of EPIC stories. These two volumes over the millennia have laid the ground work for what Heroes, villians and far reaching adventure would ever be. There is not much that can be said that literature is not already aware of when it comes to the horizons, characters and scope of the men, women and everything else in these stories. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_216601523" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_216601523"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_216601523" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_216601523" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_216601523"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Joligula" target="_top">Joligula</a> | May 9, 2023 | <a href="/review/216601523"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_230340531" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/3754" data-workid="3754" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>12/1/22</div><div id="rfd_230340531" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_230340531"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_230340531" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_230340531" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_230340531"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/laplantelibrary" target="_top">laplantelibrary</a> | Dec 1, 2022 | <a href="/review/230340531"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_203540062" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/3754" data-workid="3754" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Homer’s two best known epics — “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” — are two of my favorite history related pieces and two of my favorite (epic) poems.<br>There is a lot of repetition in these epics due to the fact that they were originally told orally — and over a few days — before being written down.<br>After reading both, I tend to prefer “The Odyssey,” but I definitely highly recommend both to any reader since these two epic poems have had such a great influence over modern day writing and storytelling. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_203540062" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_203540062"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_203540062" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_203540062" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_203540062"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/historybookreads" target="_top">historybookreads</a> | Jul 26, 2021 | <a href="/review/203540062"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_199048624" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/3754" data-workid="3754" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0147712556.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I haven't finished it. The recording and translation are fine, but I find the convention of introducing each section with a summary, the telling the tale, then ending the section with the summary again boring boyond words. If anyone knows of a version that avoides this (in print or audio), please let me know. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss4.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_199048624" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_199048624"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_199048624" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_199048624" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_199048624"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Lindsay_Wallace" target="_top">Lindsay_Wallace</a> | Apr 16, 2021 | <a href="/review/199048624"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','3754','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','3754','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 43 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','3754','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','3754','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_e38ce8d5', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_e38ce8d5" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_0f9dd23b_link"><tr><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'3754'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> </td></tr></table></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'otherauthors', 'u_f22d3262', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Other authors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_f22d3262" style="display:block;"><div id="otherauthors_container"><p style="margin-top: 5px !important;"><a href="javascript:otherauthors_edit(3754)">» Add other authors (58 possible)</a></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="otherauthor"><tr class="head"><td>Author name</td><td>Role</td><td>Type of author</td><td>Work?</td><td>Status</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/homer">Homer</a></td><td>—</td><td>primary author</td><td>all editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/adlermortimerj">Adler, Mortimer J</a></td><td>Editor</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/armstrongwc">Armstrong, W. 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href="/nseries/256498/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B" class="" >Библиотека всемирной литературы</a></div></div></div></div><div id="relationships_container"><h2>Is contained in</h2><div id="u_9cee3e52" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="3331776" href="/work/3331776">Britannica Great Books of the Western World (54 Volumes)</a> by <a data-authorid="hutchinsrobertmaynar" href="/author/hutchinsrobertmaynar">Robert Maynard Hutchins</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="21875153" href="/work/21875153">Great Books of the Western World [64-volume set]</a> by <a data-authorid="hutchinsrobertmaynar" href="/author/hutchinsrobertmaynar">Robert Maynard Hutchins</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="21875181" href="/work/21875181">Great Books Of The Western World - 54 Volume Set, Incl. 10 Vols of Great Ideas Program & 10 Volumes Gateway To Great Books</a> by <a data-authorid="hutchinsrobertmaynar" href="/author/hutchinsrobertmaynar">Robert Maynard Hutchins</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div></div><h2>Contains</h2><div id="u_59d35cc6" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="1526" href="/work/1526">The Odyssey</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="5057" href="/work/5057">The Iliad</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="2640360" href="/work/2640360">The Odyssey, Books 13-24</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="10565125" href="/work/10565125">The Odyssey, Books 1-12</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="12665012" href="/work/12665012">De dolinge van Ulysse : Homerus' Odysseia I-XVIII in Nederlandse verzen van Dierick Volckertsz. Coornhert</a> by <a data-authorid="homerus" href="/author/homerus">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="17804984" href="/work/17804984">Odissea:volum primer: cants I-VIII</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="showmore_showlink">(<a href="javascript:showMore('u_59d35cc6')">show 4 more</a>)</div><div class="showmore_hide"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="17804975" href="/work/17804975">Odissea: volum segon: cants IX-XVI</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="17804976" href="/work/17804976">Odissea: volum tercer: cants XVII-XXIV</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="15878039" href="/work/15878039">Circe and the Cyclops</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="8229438" href="/work/8229438">The Iliad, Books 13-24</a> by <a data-authorid="homer" href="/author/homer">Homer</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div></div></div><h2>Is retold in</h2><div id="u_2206b9a5" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="121025" href="/work/121025">The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy</a> by <a data-authorid="columpadraic" href="/author/columpadraic">Padraic Colum</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="1500422" href="/work/1500422">The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Heroic Story of the Trojan War and the Fabulous Adventures of Odysseus</a> by <a data-authorid="watsonjanewerner" href="/author/watsonjanewerner">Jane Werner Watson</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="1890296" href="/work/1890296">Kalypso</a> by <a data-authorid="khlmeiermichael" href="/author/khlmeiermichael">Michael Köhlmeier</a></span></div></div><h2>Has the adaptation</h2><div id="u_ec1f8e34" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="121025" href="/work/121025">The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy</a> by <a data-authorid="columpadraic" href="/author/columpadraic">Padraic Colum</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="1273870" href="/work/1273870">The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, Retold by Alfred J. Church</a> by <a data-authorid="churchalfredj" href="/author/churchalfredj">Alfred J. 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class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Homeric+epic+poems">Homeric epic poems</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_characternames"></a>People/Characters</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_87bed28f' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='3' name='u_87bed28f' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Odysseus">Odysseus</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Achilles">Achilles</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Hector">Hector</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Priam">Priam</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_7d66d171">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_7d66d171')">show all 12 items</a>)</div><div id="u_7d66d171" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Paris+of+Troy">Paris of Troy</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Helen+of+Troy">Helen of Troy</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Aeolus">Aeolus</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Agenor">Agenor</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Ajax">Ajax</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Ajax+the+Lesser">Ajax the Lesser</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Briseis">Briseis</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_3d83ff70' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='2' name='u_3d83ff70' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_bcb83966' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='34' name='u_bcb83966' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_7eb05485' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='37' name='u_7eb05485' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="Helen of Troy (1956 | tt0049301)" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Helen+of+Troy&f=37&exact=1&type=1">Helen of Troy</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1956">1956</a> | <a class="fwikiAutoLink imdblink" target="_top" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/">IMDb</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_c873469c' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='28' name='u_c873469c' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_735d814e' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='30' name='u_735d814e' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class="currentlyFrom">Information from the German Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.</div><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >An Friedrich Leopold<br>Grafen zu Stolberg<br>1780</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_417da13c' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='25' name='u_417da13c' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_d5303438' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='27' name='u_d5303438' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both<br>/ His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth<br>/ His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath<br>/ Spent to all use, and down he sank to death. /<br>The sea had soak'd his heart through; all his veins<br>/ His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains, /<br>Dead-weary was he.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself — not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithoüs, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danaë, the daintly ankled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus. Then there was the daughter of Phonenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus. There was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Heracles, while Samele became mother to Bacchus, the comforter of mankind. There was queen Demeter again, and lovely Leto, and yourself — but with none of these was I ever so much enamored as I now am with you.”</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both / His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth / His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath / Spent to all use, and down he sank to death. / The sea had soak'd his heart through; all his veins / His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains, / Dead-weary was he.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_1ad19336' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='26' name='u_1ad19336' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_627a616e" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_627a616e')" id="link_u_627a616e">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_disambiguation"></a>Disambiguation notice</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_139a7153' itemType='1' itemNum='3754' fieldType='13' name='u_139a7153' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'disambiguation' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Clarifications to be used by future combiners and separators, or just as information.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdisambiguation'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >This work contains both (and only) <i>The Iliad</i> and <i>The Odyssey</i>. 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