The Iliad was about a couple of months near the end of the War. The Odyssey was about Odysseus' long voyage home after it.
The Iliad tells the story of the last months of the Trojan War.
If the Trojan War occurred around 1250 BCE (BC) and Homer composed the Iliad and The Odyssey around 800 BCE, that makes 450 years, and the Greeks did not develop writing until around 500 BCE when it was finally written down.
10 years
He spent the next ten years getting home. It is the story of the Odyssey.
The Odyssey takes place immediately following the Trojan war.
The Iliad tells the story of the last months of the Trojan War.
The Iliad covered a few weeks of the last year of the Trojan War. In the original version, the Iliad covered many years of the war.
If the Trojan War occurred around 1250 BCE (BC) and Homer composed the Iliad and The Odyssey around 800 BCE, that makes 450 years, and the Greeks did not develop writing until around 500 BCE when it was finally written down.
Odysseus is called to fight in the Trojan War in Book 2 of The Iliad, where he is described as the "man of many wiles."
10 years
He spent the next ten years getting home. It is the story of the Odyssey.
It tells a few weeks of the legendary 10 years of the Trojan War.It is more properly called The Wrath of Achilles - how Achilles was overcome with anger when king Agamemnon pinched his favourite slave girl, sulked in his tent until Hector killed his boyfriend Patrocolos, then reentered battle, killed Hector and humiliated his body.
The Odyssey takes place immediately following the Trojan war.
Yes, the Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the war, though it also contains the story of what happened to Odysseus during that time.
For most of European history the Iliad and The Odyssey were the earliest known poems. This meant that almost all later European poetry made use of the Iliad or the Odyssey in one way or another. During the twentieth century some poems earlier than the Iliad or the Odyssey were reclaimed:- particularly the Epic of Gilgamish. But the Iliad and the Odyssey passed for the earliest European poems for many hundred years, so they were the poems that everyone turned to.
The Odyssey is more popular than the Iliad. The Odyssey was probably written by Homer in his later years, thus was more refined than his earlier work. Moreover, the Iliad deals with battles and war, a harsher subject. The Odyssey, in comparison, deals with a fantastical adventure with monsters and gods.
According to the only known source, the Iliad by Homer, the Trojan War lasted for ten years.