Iliad by Homer ?

Question

Why did Homer ends his Iliad after the funeral of Hector and not after the fall of Troy?!?!?!

Is there any other epic by him that concluded the fall of Troy?

Answer 1

The Oddesy?  I'm not sure if it concludes it, sorry...

Answer 2

Iliad was just as much about the city of troy as the warriors who fought in the trojan war. Odyssey, I belive starts with the end of the trojan war but may not necessarily be the conclusion you are looking for.

Answer 3

No, unfortunately that is the end.

Answer 4

Presumably the author of the “Iliad” was interested in telling an account of the “Wrath of Achilles” and the death of Hector in full, from the tales of the Trojan war. Note, at the time when the “Iliad” was composed, tales of the Trojan war and of parts of the Trojan war could be told by almost any traveling songster.

The “Odyssey” tells the story of the homecoming of Odysseus from Troy, but most think this to be by a different author than the author of the “Iliad”. But it is a kind of sequel, and relates some incidents towards the end of the war.

But “The Fall of Troy'' by Quintus Smrynaeus is the longest and deepest suriving account of the story of the Trojan war between the end of the “Iliad' and the storm at the beginning of the return of the Greeks. See http://omacl.org/Troy/ . Note that it often does not agree exactly with backflashes in the “Odyssey” in its story of the events. This work is also often called the “Posthomerica”.

For the death of Agamemnon and the vegeneance taken by his son, probably the triad of plays known as the Oresteia by Aeschylus is best. See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oresteia . There are other Greek tragedies that cover the fall of Troy and the later lives of some of the participants in the war.

Note that the “Odyssey” begins soon after Orestes has avenged his father. So it would be reasonable to read it next.

The Latin epic the “Aeneid” by Virgil covers the wanderings of the Trojan Aeneas, See http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/V... .

For a discussion of lost works on the Trojan war, see http://homer.thefreelibrary.com/Collecti... .