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Homer’s #Iliad is the first and greatest epic poem to have come down to us from ancient #Greece. #TheOdyssey is the second. #Homer is thought to have composed it in old age. Although this later epic is less powerful than the Iliad, it has been more influential, perhaps because the story seems universal—it’s about a tired old man who wants to go home and sleep in his own bed again. As every student of literature knows, James Joyce’s Ulysses is a retelling of the Odyssey updated to 20th-century Du