{"id":99615,"date":"2026-04-13T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99615"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:58:36","slug":"should-you-read-the-iliad-or-odyssey-first-the-epic-cycle-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/should-you-read-the-iliad-or-odyssey-first-the-epic-cycle-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you read <em>The Iliad<\/em> or <em>Odyssey<\/em> first? (The Epic Cycle EXPLAINED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97AyWD-SBKY?si=wLpnXAFAYkOTZ0x7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MoAn Inc.<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 11 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>This video was filmed in July of 2025. I wasn&#8217;t going to upload it due to the weird not-really-focused-but-also-kinda-focused-thing my phone camera was clearly going through, but decided I didn&#8217;t care that much because the content itself was fine<\/p>\n<p>#AncientGreece #GreekMythology #TrojanWar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoAn Inc. Published 11 Dec 2025 This video was filmed in July of 2025. I wasn&#8217;t going to upload it due to the weird not-really-focused-but-also-kinda-focused-thing my phone camera was clearly going through, but decided I didn&#8217;t care that much because the content itself was fine #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #TrojanWar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[1527,1490,822,592,1316],"class_list":["post-99615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","tag-ancientgreece","tag-historiography","tag-mythology","tag-poetry","tag-trojanwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pUH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101848,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99615\/revisions\/101848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}