The Aenied and The Iliad

<h3><span>This epic poetry book is a combo of two t</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>he great war epic of Western literature</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> The Aeneid by Virgil and The Iliad by Homer</strong></h3><p><br></p><h1><em style=color: rgba(19 81 105 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Aeneid - An Introduction</em></h1><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Aeneid</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a that tells the </span><span style=background-color: initial>legendary</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> story of </span><span style=background-color: initial>Aeneas</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a </span><span style=background-color: initial>Trojan</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> who fled the </span><span style=background-color: initial>fall of Troy</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and travelled to </span><span style=background-color: initial>Italy</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> where he became the ancestor of the </span><span style=background-color: initial>Romans</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Written by the Roman poet </span><span style=background-color: initial>Virgil.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the </span><span style=background-color: initial>Latins</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.</span></p><p><br></p><h1><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(19 81 105 1)>The Iliad - An Introduction</em></h1><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Iliad</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is an epic that tells about only a few weeks during the Trojan War. The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Iliad</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> does not tell the entire story of the war which is supposed to have lasted for ten years. But the audience is expected to be familiar with the entire story of the Trojan War including all the events that occurred before and after the war. These pre- and post-war events are referred to in the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Iliad</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> but they are not explained so here are a few of the most important stories.</span></p>