He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune

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.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.