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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Iliad and Odyssey are (together with the Bible), quite literally the "cornerstones" of western literature; they really cannot be "overhyped".
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I think you just have.
If they're "
quite literally the 'cornerstones'" in the sense of being stones at the intersections of walls; I would beg to disagree.
If they're "quite literally the 'cornerstones'" in the sense of being works that the whole of Western literature rests upon; then I would beg to differ.