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Juan Francisco
Although they're not exactly sequential, I'd recommend you to read The Iliad first, then The Odyssey. The Iliad provides you huge context, involving the Trojan War, plenty of characters (including Odysseus), and the cosmovision of Ancient Greece.
John P.
Since the Odyssey is the better of the two books, read it second so that you will be saving the best for last. It is weird though reading from Odysseus being a secondary character in the Iliad to being the hero in the Odyssey.
CJ - It's only a Paper Moon
Yep. I would read the Iliad, The Odyssey and then The Aeneid.
Michael Magg
To be fair , both of them are captivating in a different way. In greek schools , Odyssey is the first epic to be teached as it's "fairytale" style makes it less complex and more entertaining. The Iliad is a war epic full of passion and violence as Homer was still young by the time he composed it. If you want to have a chronological flow in your reading , Iliad is the way to go.
Michael Carradice
The Illiad. Then, when you read the Odyssey, many characters there will be old friends. As many older, minor conflicts were mentioned in the Illiad, in the Odyssey the shadow of Troy frames the figure of Odysseus and his old comrades, all veterans from a long protracted war who wished to come back home, only that home did not exist anymore as it was, bereft of the love of the wife or the laughter of the son or the peace of one's own hall.
Jose Antonio Pérez Corona
The Iliad, it describes the war in Troy, after that Ulysses returns his Home.
Ayla
Much of what happens in the Illiad is recounted in the Odyssey. I feel the Odyssey is more a part 2.
Rowan
The Iliad takes place before the Odyssey so I would read that first
Enea Qevani
Since Odisea sums the aftermath of the war and the personal story of the hero you have to read it second. If not you will have questions later. Same for Eneida
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