When Helen, the most beautiful woman in Mycenaean Greece, is taken away from her husband, Menelaus, Greek princes send out a thousand ships to bring her home from Troy. The Trojan War breaks out, resulting in an epic poem crowned with heroic military action, sensual romance, and vengeful gods.
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While speculations have been made throughout the centuries that The Iliad and The Odyssey were collaborate efforts, expanded as the epic poems were passed on through the oral tradition, they are traditionally attributed to Homer. The blind bard lived some time in the late eighth and early seventh centuries B.C.
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The Iliad (World Digital Library Edition)
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