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	The ''Iliad'' (a song about Ilium, or Troy) along with its companion [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] the <i>[[Odyssey]]</i> form the foundation of ancient Greek culture and address the extremes of human experience through war and peace. Both [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] are primary, or oral, [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] that draw on an enormous wealth of cultural stories in unified structures that we attribute to the poet [[Homer]], in eighth century B.C.E. The [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] are written in an unsentimental style: the ''Iliad'' depicts the ambivalence of war in meticulously accurate details. Both the nightmare of war and its excitement find expression in the ''Iliad'', just as the <i>[[Odyssey]]</i>’s pages quest for a home, or a peace that seems hard-won after the devastation of war.		The ''Iliad'' (a song about Ilium, or Troy) along with its companion [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] the <i>[[Odyssey]]</i> form the foundation of ancient Greek culture and address the extremes of human experience through war and peace. Both [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] are primary, or oral, [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] that draw on an enormous wealth of cultural stories in unified structures that we attribute to the poet [[Homer]], in eighth century B.C.E. The [[Epic Poetry\|epic]] are written in an unsentimental style: the ''Iliad'' depicts the ambivalence of war in meticulously accurate details. Both the nightmare of war and its excitement find expression in the ''Iliad'', just as the <i>[[Odyssey]]</i>’s pages quest for a home, or a peace that seems hard-won after the devastation of war.