Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.