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…