Achilles and Odysseus even share a tribulation which was the destruction of Troy. “Some six hundred years later a critic whose writings have come down under the name Longinus claimed that the Iliad was the poem of Homer's youth and the Odyssey of his old age.” (Beye) The crazy thought is that after The Iliad was written, it took some time much later till the tale of Odysseus was finally written. This is because Odysseus was a hero that no one wanted to touch on, especially how his life would
Achilles and Odysseus even share a tribulation which was the destruction of Troy. “Some six hundred years later a critic whose writings have come down under the name Longinus claimed that the Iliad was the poem of Homer's youth and the Odyssey of his old age.” (Beye) The crazy thought is that after The Iliad was written, it took some time much later till the tale of Odysseus was finally written. This is because Odysseus was a hero that no one wanted to touch on, especially how his life would