Similar themes to those in the classical Greek Poems were frequently painted on Vases and other ceramics starting as early as the Geometric period 1600 BCE.

Epic poetry: traditions ... Some long poems are better called mock heroic or satire — The Rape of Lock, Don Juan, — and others are magnificent failures: Prelude, Hyperion, Idylls of the King,

An epic (from Greek: έπος or επικό "word, story, poem") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry...

Iliad n. The older of the two surviving ancient Greek epic poems, traditionally ascribed to Homer but containing material composed orally over ... The events of the epic are as follows. ... The Greek army,

Odyssey n. The younger of the two surviving ancient Greek epic poems, traditionally ascribed to Homer but containing much orally transmitted ... The younger of the two surviving ancient Greek epic poems,

Librivox recording of The Odyssey, by Homer (transl. Samuel Butler). ... The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer.

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. ... ; LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning.

Chronology and focus : Iliad (tale of Ilium = Troy) does not tell whole story of 10-year Trojan War: longest archaic Greek epic (15000+ lines: Odyssey = c.12000;

the "Batrachomyomachia", Homeric hymns and cyclic poems are generally agreed to be later than these two epic poems. ... « Greek People Home

Poems from the Turkish Epic are adapted by Gene Doty from Gulten Yenner's prose translation. ... This is the only surviving Greek epic written between the time of Homer and the later Roman empire.