Since the Marvel Cinematic Extended Universe entered the movie scene roughly a decade-and-a-half ago, a lot of people were – and many still are – enthralled by the expansive storytelling that was employed. Throughout the cascade of interconnected narratives and characters from different adventures unexpectedly teaming up on other occasions, people never knew what to expect next. They did know, though, that they couldn’t wait!1 Even our old friend Gilgamesh pops up in both Marvel comics and movies.2 But such an extended narrative universe is nothing new. Gilgamesh himself, for example, already figured in a number of tangentially related Sumerian narratives which predate the famous epic that nowadays bears his name.3 Today, though I want to introduce another batch of loosely connected ancient stories: Welcome into the Homeric Extended Universe!