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The Illiad Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:40:34 2019 No.12940166 [DELETED]

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Wait,what? That's it? Where was the wooden horse and all that other cool shit?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:43:13 2019 No.12940183 The Homeric cycle was made up of several other poems that we've lost.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:45:33 2019 No.12940191 >>12940166 The story of the Trojan Horse is referenced in Book II of the Aeneid. Granted, the Aeneid was written centuries later in Latin instead of Greek but it sheds light on the Homeric origin of the story like >>12940183 said.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:54:05 2019 No.12940246 >>12940191 ... it was also referenced in the odyssey

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:55:05 2019 No.12940256 Oops, we fucking lost five epics of the cycle

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 15:57:05 2019 No.12940273 File: 962 KB, 1048x675, A2B5E77E-A261-4A34-B304-2F4773E950AA.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12940256 hahah good thing we live in the modern era and we won't lose things like that anymore - >the museum in brazil >the notre dame cathedral

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 16:01:00 2019 No.12940299 >>12940273 everything is lost eventually (that includes you & i).

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 16:02:38 2019 No.12940309 >>12940166 Narrated in a flashback in the Odyssey by Odisseus.