SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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The blind poet who wrote two famous epic poems.
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A poem of Odysseus trying to return home following the Trojan War.
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A poem of Achilles and the Trojan War.
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A poem of the Trojan War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Iliad is an epic poem, written by Homer, that covers the quarrels and fighting near the end of the Trojan War. The story opens nine years into the war, which basically started because Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, kidnapped Helen from Menelaus, a Greek and brother of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae.
Detailed explanation-2: -The story of the Iliad follows the great Greek warrior Achilles, as well as his rage and the destruction it causes. Parallel to this, the story also follows the Trojan warrior Hector and his efforts to fight to protect his family and his people.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact the Iliad takes its name from “Ilios”, an ancient Greek word for “Troy”, situated in what is Turkey today. This story had a central place in Greek mythology. The poem deals with a very short period in the tenth year of the Trojan war.