
Episode 10: Homer's Gods (Homer's Iliad, Books 9-16)
Literature and History
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The Trojan War, a Lost Part of the Long Epic Cycle
The Trojan War, a lost part of the epic cycle once told, was caused by one single entity, a goddess. We met her before, once, a passing mention in Hesiod's Theogony,. But we won't forget about her again. She was a child of the Elemental Knight, and the Greeks called her Eris, or the goddess of strife and discord.
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