What are Homer's works?
Homer's works:
The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Battle of Frogs and Rats.
In addition to two famous long narrative epics, Iliad and Odyssey, Homer has many other epics, but they are all lost. There is a lost satirical poem and the existing battle between frogs and mice written by Homer, as well as some ode to the gods, but they are all lost.
Introduction to the Iliad;
The Iliad was written in the 9th century BC, but the epic story took place in12nd century BC (equivalent to Shang Dynasty in China). At that time, the Greek Coalition forces and Troy launched a war that lasted for 10 years. The Iliad mainly describes the legendary plot in the war, focusing on the great image of the Greek hero Achilles.
The Greeks made an expedition to Troy, and the Trojans were ready for the battle. The two sides played several rounds. Although the Greeks won again and again, they could not conquer the city, and the war eventually became a protracted war. Nine years later, 10 finally changed dramatically.
Achilles, the main commander of the Greek Coalition forces, was brave and good at fighting, and made repeated achievements, which made the Trojans frightened. On one occasion, Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greek Coalition forces, snatched Achilles' beloved slave girl. Achilles was very angry and refused to go to war. He drank poetry and turned a blind eye to the war. The Trojans took the opportunity to counterattack and won a great victory. The Greeks were in danger of being wiped out. Achilles refused to make peace with Agamemnon, but when he saw the earth-shattering bloody battle, he secretly worried about the fate of the Greeks. He put his good friend Patrocla in armor and told him to fight. The Trojans mistakenly thought Achilles was in the war again, and they were defeated one after another. Patrocla killed the commander of the Trojan Coalition and won a great victory.
Hecktor, the prince of Troy, is a hero with both wisdom and courage. He found that Patrocla was not Achilles himself, rushed forward and threw javelin on his back, and stripped Achilles' armor off and put it on, killing the Greeks. The situation is extremely critical. Achilles was heartbroken and took the lead in returning to the battlefield. He personally killed Hecktor and avenged his good friend. He tied Hecktor's body behind the chariot and dragged it around Troy on the ground.
Late at night, the moonlight was like water, and Hecktor's father suddenly came to Achilles Palace. He kissed Achilles' hand and said tearfully, "Achilles is like a god. Think of your father and have pity on me. Nothing is more sad than seeing your son die before you. " Achilles' pent-up anger was washed away. He asked the slave girl to wash Hecktor's body, paint it with olive oil, wrap it in clothes, and personally put Hecktor on horseback to his father. The two sides stopped fighting 12 days and held funerals for Hecktor and Patrocla respectively.
A few days later, the allied forces of Troy and Greece resumed fighting. Brave as Achilles is, he sometimes fights. Once, Paris of Troy, with the help of God, shot Achilles in the back with an arrow. When Achilles was a child, his mother held his heel and bathed him with magic water, so he was invulnerable, but his mother didn't bathe his heel with magic water, so his feet were the most vulnerable. Paris's arrow hit his heel. Now, "Achilles heel" means "fatal wound" in Europe.
After the war, the resourceful and decisive Greek general Odysseus came up with a brilliant plan. He asked the carpenter to make a big wooden horse with a good soldier and a strong general in it. The Greeks pretended to retreat and left the big wooden horse outside Troy. The Trojans were overjoyed to think that the Greeks were withdrawing their troops. They dragged the Trojan horse into the city as a trophy. In the middle of the night, the Greeks who rode on the Trojan horse lost no time in climbing out, opened the gate, and the Greeks who ambushed outside the city invaded the city, captured the city in one fell swoop, and burned the bustling city of Troy to ashes with a torch. Odysseus focuses on the legend that Greek general Odysseus came up with the "Trojan horse plan" on his way back to China.
After the Greeks captured Troy, they plundered it and returned to China successfully. On their way home, they offended the gods. The Greek fleet was overturned by the sea breeze and many people drowned in the sea. Odysseus drifted on the sea with only a few people left. They have suffered all kinds of hardships and can't go home. When Odysseus was wandering at sea, he struggled with the wind and waves and the cannibals, and refused the witch's love. He drifted at sea for ten years. It is said that Odysseus is dead in his country. Local nobles and villains came to pester his wife Penelope, hoping to win his position and property. Odysseus' son traveled all over Greece looking for him. Those hooligans make a scene in his house all day, eating and drinking.
Odysseus later drifted to Skiri Island, where the local king warmly received him. After learning of his misfortune, he sent someone to send him back to China.
After returning home, Odysseus dressed up as an old beggar and met his son. Together, the two of them, Qi Xin, finally drove away all the aristocratic hooligans who had run amok in his house. He was not only reunited with his loyal wife, but also became king again.
Brief introduction of Odyssey;
The Odyssey focuses on the last 40 days of Odysseus 10 wandering at sea: Odysseus finally reached Scheri's Ya Island after difficulties and obstacles, and was received by Axe Faye Wong. During the dinner, he was invited to talk about his experiences at sea, such as encountering storms, unicorns, troubles, banshees and being struck by lightning. Later, the beggar disguised as a beggar came home, designed a competition, shot and killed many nobles who gathered in his palace to force his wife to get married, and reunited with his faithful wife Penie Lopez and his brave son Taylor Marcos.