I'm a former English teacher. You don't need to be an English teacher, however, to know THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY ARE TWO DISTINCTLY SEPARATE STORIES.
This lying fuck did a wikipedia search of "the classics" and wants smart people points for name-dropping THE WRONG FUCKING NAME.
He hasn't read either. At best he's seen a bunch of bleached Hellenistic statue avatars on the internet and nodded along to their RETVRN prattling. 
Ever meet that annoying kid in grade school that said "I am very smart. I know that E Equals Em Cee Squared!" 
Fifty years later, one of those became 
That comes from the same
that said chess was too simple for him because there's no "fog of war" and he prefers some specific bibeo bame instead. Like any insufferable "smarter than you" tryhard on the playground, he won't actually play you in chess to prove it's too simple for him, though.
The videogame he said was better is a dumbed down version of Civ for phones. Big iPad kid energy
"Go is a simple game for babies and has been for thousands of years. That's why I play Clash of Clans."