One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.