A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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