The Iliad Is The Private

There Have Been Only Rare Moments In History Where Individual Histories Were Able To Run Their Course Without Wars Or Revolutions.

It Doesn't Seem To Me That Anyone Has Discovered Much That's New Since The Iliad Or The Odyssey.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.

True Stories Deal With Hunger, Imaginary Ones With Love.

Fiction Has Consisted Either Of Placing Imaginary Characters In A True Story, Which Is The Iliad, Or Of Presenting The Story Of An Individual As Having A General Historical Value, Which Is The Odyssey.