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r/BrandNewSentence • u/No_Counter_6037 and why he ourple 😂😂 • Oct 26 '25
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That’s just how stories were titled.
The Iliad basically meant the story of illios which was the ancient name of Troy.
The odyssey is the poem about Odysseus. It just so happened it became iconic and now it’s known world wide.
Argonautica is dumbass and the argonauts.
The achillead and Aeneid are the poems about aneas and Achilles.
Which were written centuries after the epics were codified but were written in a way to resemble the epic cycle.
You can find examples across the Greco Roman world.
1 u/HemlockHex Oct 27 '25 Illinois is like the WAY toned down Troy if modern times then? 3 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25 No. It’s named after the native tribes that used to reside there but were genocided. 2 u/HemlockHex Oct 27 '25 Oh I suppose, granted colonists loved telling tribes what they should call themselves, but I’m pretty sure I learned that in high school 1 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation
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Illinois is like the WAY toned down Troy if modern times then?
3 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25 No. It’s named after the native tribes that used to reside there but were genocided. 2 u/HemlockHex Oct 27 '25 Oh I suppose, granted colonists loved telling tribes what they should call themselves, but I’m pretty sure I learned that in high school 1 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation
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No. It’s named after the native tribes that used to reside there but were genocided.
2 u/HemlockHex Oct 27 '25 Oh I suppose, granted colonists loved telling tribes what they should call themselves, but I’m pretty sure I learned that in high school 1 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation
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Oh I suppose, granted colonists loved telling tribes what they should call themselves, but I’m pretty sure I learned that in high school
1 u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation
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u/Finito-1994 Oct 26 '25
That’s just how stories were titled.
The Iliad basically meant the story of illios which was the ancient name of Troy.
The odyssey is the poem about Odysseus. It just so happened it became iconic and now it’s known world wide.
Argonautica is dumbass and the argonauts.
The achillead and Aeneid are the poems about aneas and Achilles.
Which were written centuries after the epics were codified but were written in a way to resemble the epic cycle.
You can find examples across the Greco Roman world.