re: #289 windsagio

This is a strange discussion for me since I’m an atheist but here goes.

Homer, in the Iliad, the Odyssey and the lesser known Theogony is dealing with creation, with the gods and with a cultural sense of what is expected of a Greek. I don’t see in the least how this is different from the old and new testaments and the Koran. Granted I’m an atheist, but the differences are in degree not in kind.

The old+new testaments went through quite a bit of state enforced editing. Homer was adapted by the singers over time. The parallels are endless. Arguably, Homer influenced the old testament, or perhaps there were cultural exchanges across the Med.