Joseph Campbell, as a comparative mythology scholar, is best known for his work codifying the Hero's Journey story structure. He proposed the idea of a 'monomyth', or a common template that follows a hero going on an adventure and returning, changed that is present in all stories. Campbell split the monomyth template into 17 steps. Not all of the steps are always present, and the steps may not always be in the same order, but they are typically divided into three larger sections, or acts: the Departure (or Separation), the Initiation and the Return (1). These steps symbolize the hero's descent into the unknown adventure as well as their eventual return to the world they know. One of the epics that greatly influenced the idea of the monomyth was the Iliad. The Iliad is a piece of ancient Greek epic poetry. The journey of Achilles, as told in the Iliad, follows the Hero's Journey steps set out by Campbell. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey most likely originated ...