Homer
The Ancients
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The Odyssey and the Iliad
The Odyssey ends with Odysseus returning to Ithaca and being reunited with his wife Penelope killing all of all the seaters. There's some dispute as to where the Odyssey actually ended it's the final book 24 The Jitimet is it not legitimate? Do we know of any historical influences that might have inspired influenced Homer or whoever initially created this story there are certainly influences coming over from the Near East so the poem that probably was the great sort of forerunner of the Iliad and the Odyssey is really the epic of Gilgamesh which simile tells of a hero and his quests.
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