Homer's gravitational pull
The Greek camp in the Ambrosian Iliad, a 5th-century AD manuscript containing a fully illustrated copy of Homer's Iliad, (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 205 Inf).
All European philosophy may be a gloss on Aristotle, but all European fiction is a gloss on Homer. It seems to me that all the genres we enjoy reading in books and watching on screen a…