The most ancient poems of European literature are assigned since antiquity to Homer the Iliad and the Odyssey. It's epics or epic poems, i.e. long narrative poems would almost 16000 verses of the Iliad, and more than 12000 Odyssey, probably composed in the 8th century a. C the two epics make reference to stories located in the last legendary, heroic age helena: both have as background the Trojan war.?? The Iliad recounts an episode from the final year of the war of Troy ( the anger and vengeance of Achilles ) and the Odyssey begins where ends the Iliad: narrates the rough would return from one of his heroes: Odysseus or Ulysses.??
