Comparative Analysis of Aeneid, Odyssey and IliadThe Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the best Greek epics written by Homer. Despite their popularity, almost nothing is known about the author beyond the existence of his masterpieces. Surprisingly enough, no concrete evidence of its existence is available; not even to confirm that the two works were created by the same person. The authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey was already debated in the times of the ancient Greeks. Many scholars have argued that Homer did not compose the Iliad and the Odyssey; only compiled over the centuries by many different narrators. It is certainly known that the stories that make up these two works come from a long mythological tradition. The Iliad, in particular, is a particularly well-documented oral tradition, and its stories would have been quite familiar to Homer's audience before the epic was written. Interestingly, the style of the Iliad, its similarity to the Odyssey, the cast of characters, and their portrayal all support the belief that they were the work of a single author, who took familiar stories and transformed them into two major works. If this had happened, it would probably have been around the 8th century BC. This places the third work to be discussed, the Aeneid, just over seven centuries younger than the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Aeneid written by Virgil, the best known of the Roman poets. Shortly after finishing the Georgics, a long poem about agriculture, he began his masterpiece, the Aeneid, the story of the founding of Rome. It took eleven years to complete the Aeneid, and even then Virgil did not consider the epic suitable for publication. Upon his death he ordered the destruction of the Aeneid. However, the emperor Augustus intervened and, to the gr...... half of the paper...... the country. Which further explains the political flavor of the Aeneid. Furthermore, in some absolute sense Ulysses belongs to Ithaca, to his home, and once there he can remain safe there indefinitely. The Romans' world was much more uncertain due to the constant possibility of disaster, and they believed that human existence was inherently a tragedy due to this constant anger. Even if all the Trojans had done nothing wrong, they would still have received the winds sent at the behest of Juno (Hera). All they had was vulnerability, their lives, their cities and their civilization; everything could be destroyed by godless discord. Furthermore, no matter how devoted and duty-filled one is, it is always possible for fury to emerge. It is therefore not surprising that Greek and Roman epics were so different, since what they perceived were actually two different worlds..