To consider the exact time of the poems creation with the aim to research the political and social environmental and to add to the supportive facts is impossible, as there is no exact information about Homer and the dates of his birth and death. Such distinctive beginnings suggest about the difference in perception of respective protagonists, and explain in terms of larger cultural and narrative themes in both epics.Ĭonsidering the cultural and time environment, the poems were written in ancient Greece by Homer, who is considered to be, according to the accepted information, a legendary epic poet. Nevertheless, Odysseus is established as the subject of the poem in the very first line when he is described as the man of many ways. Unlike Achilles, Odysseus’ name does not occur in The Odyssey until line twenty-one. In The Iliad, the poet begins with a description of Achilles’ “anger” (mēnis). Such mix of the techniques and characters introduction is provided by Homer in two of his works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, which are going to be analyzed from the point of view of the characters insertion in the description. There are occasionally situations, when one author uses different techniques within different works.
Authors usually use various methodologies in their work, as they want to be unique and different from other authors by the special text organization or the characters introduction. There is a great deal of different methods and techniques to introduce the main characters of the story, to organize the text and to make the reader interested in the book from the very beginning.
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