. . . but, as I recall, the story of Achilles' heel isn't even in Iliad. For that matter, the phrase about the face and the thousand ships is from Christopher Marlowe. Maybe some people would say the poem "bequeathed" those things to us, but I wouldn't agree.
'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are giving up new secrets about the ancient world - The Boston Globe: "NEARLY 3,000 YEARS after the death of the Greek poet Homer, his epic tales of the war for Troy and its aftermath remain deeply woven into the fabric of our culture. These stories of pride and rage, massacre and homecoming have been translated and republished over millennia. Even people who have never read a word of 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey' know the phrases they have bequeathed to us - the Trojan horse, the Achilles heel, the face that launched a thousand ships."
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