Ancient Literature: The Iliad And The Odyssey

Literature was probably created around 2000 before Christ, with the first story ever found called Gilgamesh. The importance of ancient literature is that people wanted to make their stories memorable, thus they wrote them down. Although the first stories were told by songs, it is considered literature. It is considered ancient literature, the stories created between the invention of writing and the beginning of the middle age(Pablo, 2009). Literature is very important because, it helps us understand how they thought in those years, also how their culture were and most important part is that ancient literature was about the Gods and Goddesses, their nature, and about the creation of the world. This essay is divided into five literatures, which

The Iliad and the Odyssey are Greek stories about Gods and Goddesses, in which the humans praise them, make animal sacrifices to them (Heubeck, n.d). The Iliad is about Achilles, who was an honorable warrior, he was fighting in Troy because he lost a close friend and wanted revenge, at the end he killed Hector who was the man who killed his friend (J, n.d). The Odyssey is about a man that was considered dead after a war, he was so important because he was the owner of a town and he was the husband of the most beautiful woman in the world. In his way, back home, he had a lot of adventures with beautiful women and Goddesses, also a lot of people wanted to kill him, so the Gods and specially Athena who always helped him and his wife. At the end, he is back home, and get to know his son (Mata,

The story is about a Giant that always goes to kill people if in Geatsland was a party or music. The main character is Beowulf who is the son of the king’s sister, he wanted to kill the giant to make their town (kingdom) safe, some men tried to kill the giant but they could not do it. But Beowulf made a party in order to make the Giant come to his village, and he killed him. But what he did not know is that the Giant had a mother, so Beowulf went to the lake where she lives, and killed her. He was a hero, and became Geatsland’s King. But he always wanted to be better, to kill more monsters; and at the end he died in a battle because he was too old to fight as he used to (Strafford,