Homer composed two great poems. One is the Iliad , which takes its name from Ilium, or Troy, a town in Asia Minor. __________1_____________ They had good reason for waging war against the Trojans, for Paris, son of the king of Troy, had stolen away the Grecian Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. ___________2____________; and the other princes of Greece joined him in attacking Troy. They took some smaller places round about and divided the booty, as the custom was. In the tenth year of the war, _____________3___________ quarreled about one of these divisions, and here the Iliad begins. Homer's second poem is the Odyssey . ____________4_____________, but Ulysses, or Odysseus, one of the leaders, was unfortunate enough to be hated by Poseidon, god of the sea. His home was on the island of Ithaca; but before Poseidon would allow him to return to it, he drove the homesick wanderer back and forth over the Mediterranean Sea for ten long years and made him undergo all sorts of danger. ________________5_________________.