Comment by kouru225

1 day ago

Woah there was a lost Homer epic comedy about a bumbling fool named Margites?

There's also the Telegony. Odysseus has a son through Circe who winds up killing him and marrying Penelope. Odysseus son through Penelope, Telemachus, marries Circe. There's some wild stuff that doesn't survive.

  • Looking through these it’s crazy to find out that The Iliad is only 1 of like 5 original texts on the Trojan war. We’re reading book 2 of a 5 book series

    • It was an oral epic passed through generations for quite a while before anything was written down so there isn't necessarily much of an "original"