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Ever heard of an ancient conflict called [[The Trojan War]]? Quite a story, really. And then there's [[Homer]]'s epic ''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[The Odyssey]]'', telling the tale in [[Doorstopper|forty-eight books]] and tens of thousands of lines of [[Poetry|dactylic hexameter]]...all of which focus on less than one year of the decade-long conflict, and the [[No Sense of Direction|years Odysseus spent lost]] afterwards.
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* ''[[Sack of Ilion]]'' ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|Also known as]] the ''Sack of Troy'', the ''Iliupersis'', or the ''Iliou persis'')
* ''[[Returns]]'' ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|Also known as]] the ''Nostoi'' or the ''Nosti'')
* ''[[
* ''[[Telegony]]''
We've [[Missing Episode|lost]] every one of the above except for Homer's epics, but yet we still know of them. References to and quotations from the lost epics have survived in fragments. By an incredible stroke of luck, we have a
Thanks to these sources, we know that the epics covered everything from the marriage of Peleus and Thetis to Odysseus's death.
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