I’m a former English teacher. You don’t need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.
This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of “the classics” and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.
He hasn’t read either. At best he’s seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. 
Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said “I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!” 
Fifty years later, one of those became 
I read the Iliad back in school in the original Greek. So much of it is just “this noble killed that noble”. Ya it has good moments, but damn it’s a plod. I don’t suggest it for anyone unless you’re into classics.
I agree with you there; even the motivations were exhausting. “I WILL GET REVENGE FOR THAT” “YOUR REVENGE COMPELS ME TO SEEK REVENGE” and on and on and on. Cassandra was a fun
vibe on the side, that said.
I much preferred the Odyssey as one of the forerunners of pretty much everything we now call an adventure in western literature… and it was in reverse!
Oh, ever read Lysistrata?
Sounds tedious.