Michael Carradice answers “Should I read The Iliad or The Odyssey first?”

Dawn asked this question about The Odyssey:

Should I read The Iliad or The Odyssey first?

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, i…moreThe 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.(less)

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