>I don't think so. While I couldn't
>tolerate the Iliad because of a certain
>repetitiveness, I understand it deals more
>with the Seige of Troy and Achilles epic
>battle with Hector and his desecration of
>Hector's body by using his chariot to drag
>it around outside the walls of Troy. I
>think it leaves off after the fall of
>Troy. What Herodotus is talking about is
>the wanderings of the vessel after it had
>been hit by the storm. Possibly I wrote my
>post wrongly.
The Odyssey was just about Odysseus's voyage home after the Trojan War was properly over, though, so it didn't involve Paris or Helen or the rest of them. I guess if Herodotus wasn't writing about the Iliad then it must have been about the Trojan Cycle as a whole; there are several epic poems in the series (especially the ones dealing with the earlier events and the prelude to the war) that haven't survived the ravages of time. ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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