LA ILÍADA Y LA ODISEA - LIBRO

The Iliad (in ancient Greek Ἰλιάς: Iliás, in modern Greek Ιλιάδα: Iliad) is a Greek epic and the oldest written poem in Western literature. It is traditionally attributed to Homer. Composed in dactyl hexameters, it consists of 15,693 verses (divided by the editors, already in antiquity, in 24 cantos or rhapsodies) and its plot lies in the anger of Achilles (μῆνις, mênis). It narrates the events that occurred during 51 days in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The title of the work derives from the Greek name of Troy, Ιlión.

The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Ódýsseia) is a Greek epic poem composed of 24 songs, attributed to the Greek poet Homer. It is believed that it was written in the eighth century BC. C., in the settlements that Greece had in the west coast of Asia Minor (present Asian Turkey). According to other authors, the Odyssey is completed in the seventh century BC. C. from poems that only described parts of the current work. It was originally written in what has been called Homeric dialect. It tells the return home of the Greek hero Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin) after the Trojan War. Odysseus takes ten years to return to the island of Ithaca, where he had the title of king, period during which his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope have to tolerate in his palace the suitors who seek to marry her (they already believed dead Odysseus) , at the same time that they consume the family's assets.

Both the Iliad and the Odyssey were considered by the Greeks of the classical period and later generations as the most important compositions in ancient Greek literature and were used as foundations of Greek pedagogy. Both are part of a wider series of epic poems by different authors and extensions called the Trojan cycle; however, of the other poems, only fragments have survived.