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The Odyssey is Homer's straight-to-storyteller sequel to The Iliad. It was composed as a limerick (There was an Old Git called Oddy) but later changed to dactylic hexameter to match the earlier epic. This has lead to volumes of speculation by Greek classicists that The Odyssey was written by Homer's daughter Lisa whilst she was at home taking her neighbours' laundry. This apparently explains the details found book six about never washing your best Grecian dress with a pair of dirty sandals, something old smelly feet Homer would have not known.

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  • The Odyssey is Homer's straight-to-storyteller sequel to The Iliad. It was composed as a limerick (There was an Old Git called Oddy) but later changed to dactylic hexameter to match the earlier epic. This has lead to volumes of speculation by Greek classicists that The Odyssey was written by Homer's daughter Lisa whilst she was at home taking her neighbours' laundry. This apparently explains the details found book six about never washing your best Grecian dress with a pair of dirty sandals, something old smelly feet Homer would have not known.
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  • The Odyssey is Homer's straight-to-storyteller sequel to The Iliad. It was composed as a limerick (There was an Old Git called Oddy) but later changed to dactylic hexameter to match the earlier epic. This has lead to volumes of speculation by Greek classicists that The Odyssey was written by Homer's daughter Lisa whilst she was at home taking her neighbours' laundry. This apparently explains the details found book six about never washing your best Grecian dress with a pair of dirty sandals, something old smelly feet Homer would have not known. Authorship aside, The Odyssey is focused almost entirely on Odysseus and why it took him 10 years to get back from the Trojan War. The answer you will find that he met some amazing women on the return leg and just had to sample the goods on offer before going back to his wife Penelope 'Petrolhead' Pitsop. In fact women feature a lot in this epic, compared to the masculine he-man stuff in The Iliad and so perhaps Odysseus was catching up with lost opportunity (he was approaching middle age). The story does see the return of a few old faces. Most of them are dead (spoiler alert!) and those that aren't, wish they were like Helen and her oafish husband Menelaus. No dead Trojans either (presumably they are hosted elsewhere in Hades) and hardly any Olympian Gods. Athena reappears as Odysseus's helper - though she goes through various masculine disguises to keep this secret. Also there is Poseidon who takes strongly against Odysseus for what he did to one of his blue-eyed boys (see below). Despite the smaller number of epic battles, the book is considered superior due to its explicit tenth chapter, which has caused the book to be banned in Norway, Ghana, and Gotham city. Like The Iliad it was criticized that it just doesn't rhyme properly but obviously remained a best seller otherwise it would have perished with all those other lost classics of Ancient Greek literature. Like uhm...I'll get back to you. So sit back, lie down or go to sleep and understand why The Odyssey is worth reading and how a story about a man who lost his fleet, his men and his trousers just so he could end up back in bed with his Penny Black.
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