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>Start with the Greeks
>Know a bit about Greek myths and the Trojan cycle
>Finish The Iliad
>It ends with Hector's burying rites
>Where the fuck is the sack of Troy and the death of Achilles

>> No.7151652

>>7151645
Read the Aeneid

>> No.7151666
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>>7151645
>He thought the Iliad narrated the whole Trojan war

>> No.7151739

Read the sequel? Also read the surrounding literature, the Oresita, Ajax etc.

>> No.7151821

>>7151645
In the Odissey (from Odysseus' point of view) and in the Aeneid (from Aeneas' point of view).

>> No.7151824

I think the Iliad and the Odyssey are just the only surviving parts of the full story, there's more that has apparently been lost.

>> No.7151827

the homeric cycle was a lot longer and continued to be elaborated on by poets in the archaic age, the iliad is only one part of it

boooooooooooooooooooobsffffffgkmgf

>> No.7152059

Does Odysseus at least return to Ithaca in The Odyssey or do I have to read The Bible for the sequel, ffs

>> No.7152065

Why do retards ask this question every week?

Fucking hell this board has turned into pleb central.

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>>7152065
I'll go cry myself to sleep with Harry Potter and something by Stephen King.

>> No.7152102

>>7152079
literally the aeneid covers what you want

>> No.7153147

>>7152102
>sack of troy
>trojan horse
>death of achilles
>death of scamandrios

as far as we know were all invented by virgil?

>> No.7153266

>>7153147
Not necessarily. The epic cycle, which covered the rest of the Trojan war (its beginning, which is passed over by the Iliad, and its conclusion, which is missed in the Iliad), was not always lost; I could be wrong about this, but I think it's totally possible that Virgil's writing was based on contemporaneously-yet-extant sources about the rest of the epic cycle, rather than the mere fragments which we have now (see: Loeb's "Epic Greek Fragments").

It's kind of like how we have no extant primary source content about Alexander the Great, and are forced to rely on Arrian, Rufus, Diodorus, and Plutarch, that doesn't mean that these guys just bullshitted Alexander's history. So in a similar way, we can turn to secondary sources (Virgil) supplemented by fragments of primary sources to form our understanding of the parts of the Trojan war not covered in the Iliad or alluded to in the Odyssey.