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The Iliad

The Classical Mind

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The Odyssey and the Aeneid

The Iliad was written by a young Homer in the height of his poetic powers. The Odyssey has such, you know, the themes of journey home or even more universal. Wesley Callahan is great on this and says it's still better than anybody else who wrote it right now.

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