#the iliad
What am I yearning for today?
The 5 lost epics of the Trojan War narrative that fully tell the whole story. The Iliad is the second epic and The Odyssey is the seventh; the other 5 poems were written around the same timer period as Homer, and one of the authors (who wrote 2 of the 5 lost epics) was Homer’s son-in-law. Not to mention that each subsequent poem takes place right after the events of the prior. So yeah, 5/7ths of a whole epic series are just gone forever, save for a few verses here and there, and we’ll probably never find them.
WAIT GUYS, IT’S THE HOMER EXPANDED UNIVERSE
Odysseus: everyone knows that you two are dating
Achilles: what? We’re not dating, don’t you remember I’m being sad about Briseis…
Odysseus: everyone who think that Achilles and Patroclus are dating raise a hand!
*Everybody raising a hand*
Achilles and Patroclus both: Briseis, put your hand down!
