Homer was a Bronze Age figure, his poems were taken seriously in Classical/Hellenistic Greece. Athens paid rhapsodes to sing the poems at festivals. Aeschylus's Orestia takes off from the end of the Iliad and characters from Homer appear in many other plays. Plato discusses Homer in relation to great art vs bad morals. What impact, if any, did this have on the average person? It's impossible to say.
You can definitely infer some philosophical questions from the Iliad. Fate vs the will of Zeus. The barbarian Achilles( emotional, honor bound) vs the civilized man Hector( rational, dutiful.)
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Homer was a Bronze Age figure, his poems were taken seriously in Classical/Hellenistic Greece. Athens paid rhapsodes to sing the poems at festivals. Aeschylus's Orestia takes off from the end of the Iliad and characters from Homer appear in many other plays. Plato discusses Homer in relation to great art vs bad morals. What impact, if any, did this have on the average person? It's impossible to say.
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