One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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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.
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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