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Originally Posted by DixieGal
It is OK to skip past the lists and roll calls that come up again and again. It is a 10 year war, but only a few interesting things happen. The roll calls of warriors were probably meant to flatter the listeners who imagined themselves descended from heroes.
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It's a 10 year war, but the Iliad only describes a few days of it. It both starts and finishes in mid story, so to speak. There were other epics, now mostly lost, which describe the other events of the war. We only know of them via third-hand descriptions.
The Odyssey is a lot more readable.