![]() ![]() ![]() Homer’s Odyssey was also a part of this wider Trojan cycle. The poem, composed and received orally, was originally part of the wider epic cycle a part of this cycle concerned the Trojan war, from its inception to the return of the surviving Greek heroes to their homes around the Hellenic world. The Iliad is not the complete story of Troy, nor indeed of the whole of the Greek war against Troy it is the story of a single episode and its resolution with Achilles’ return to the war. Which brought countless sufferings upon the Greeks Homer, Iliad 1.1-2 ![]() Sing, goddess, the accursed anger of Peleus’ son, Achilles, The theme is announced in the first words of the poem: This leads him to withdraw from the fighting between the Greeks and Trojans. Homer’s epic poem is the story of the anger of the greatest of the Greek heroes, Achilles. Well, in the first place this is not only a re-telling of the story of the Iliad. I had read both of those earlier works and purchased a copy of Troy both because I had so much enjoyed the earlier books and because I was interested to see what Stephen Fry could do with a topic which was the subject of the foundational poem of western literature: Homer’s Iliad. Stephen Fry’s Troy is the third of his Classics-themed books, following from his earlier Mythosand Heroes. ![]()
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