![]() His pride having been wounded by Agamemnon, who abducted his slave, Briseis the hero refuses to fight. The central theme in The Iliad is Achilles’s anger. The Greek army lays siege to Troy for ten years, eventually winning the final battle thank to Ulysses ruse and his Trojan horse. Although they are separate works, both epics were destined to become landmarks of literary history. Agamemnon, brother of the wronged spouse, gathers an army composed largely of Greek kings, including Achilles, a Thessalian prince, and Ulysses, King of Ithaca. ![]() The conflict, set around the late twelfth century B.C.E., starts with the abduction of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, by Prince Paris of Troy. The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two Greek epic poems attributed to Homer (sixth century B.C.E.), relate different parts of the “Trojan War cycle” (also widely known as the Epic Cycle), which encompasses both the Trojan War and its consequences. ![]()
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