2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Semi-legendary Greek poet credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey — the foundational texts of Western literature — whose epics about the Trojan War and its aftermath established the heroic code, the interplay of divine and human agency, and the narrative conventions that all subsequent Western epic has drawn on.
Classic European fairy tale — codified by Charles Perrault (1697) and later the Brothers Grimm (1812) — depicting a young girl's encounter with a wolf in the forest while traveling to her grandmother's house — one of the most analyzed and symbolically rich fairy tales in the Western canon.