The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

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

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

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

He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains.