The Lost Sequel to the Odyssey

     The Iliad and Odyssey are some of Homer's most famous works, detailing the Trojan War. But according to a scholar named Proclus, they are but two in a series of eight epic poems. None were written by Homer, but when stitched together they fill in his missing pieces of the war.

     Now, we don't actually have any way of proving Proclus' story, but other writers have quoted the six alledged tales, and tiny scraps of them have survived in paper. Asside from that, it's difficult to question him. We know the Trojan War happened, so it's logical that someone wrote about it, and we know it was common to write epic poetry back then. If the only existing evidence of Julius Caesar was that some dude from the Elizabethian Period claimed there was a drama about the assassination of Caesar, could we refute it? We know that the assasination did take place, and we know that there were many famous playwrites in Elizabethian England - including Shakepeare.                                  14

     The last book in the lost collection, the Telegony, details the end of Odysseus' life. According to Proclus, Odysseus returns home to Ithaca from his latest adventure (which sees him marry the queen of a faraway land and remain there long enough to see his illegitimate child reach adulthood) just in time for the invasion of Telegonus, the bastard child of Odysseus and - gasp! Circe! It seems Telegonus went to visit his long-lost father, but didn't appreciate his absence when he got there.