The Iliad and The Ramayana

The Iliad and the Ramayana are synchronically world literatures. Both of these two epics were created before 100 A.D. Like the significant influence of the Iliad and Odyssey on Ancient Greek, The Ramayana and Mahabharata also played a very important role in Ancient India. We can find many common points between the Iliad and the Ramayana by just comparing the two centered heroes, Achilles and Rama. Meanwhile, we may also find some diversity due to the development of the civilization in different regions. But in conclusion, Ramayana is a didactic epic and Iliad is a dialectic epic. The similarities and dissimilarities of the two epics reveal the diversities of the literature, culture and social background between the Greek and India in the ancient heroic age. This also can be concluded as the difference between the Liberalism of the Western and the Conservatism of the Eastern in the ancient age.