Homer is not a singular figure and there is not one text behind these songs.
Scott, John Adams. The Unity of Homer. United States: University of California Press, 1921.
Not the beginning of philosophy but since they do involve wars, could be a precursor to the beginning of political thought.
Later retellings show up how these stories were transmitted through the ages and informed mythologies about the beginning of Athens.
With Virgil’s Aeneid they are reimagined weaving into the origin stories of Rome.
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Byzantium to the Enlightenment
John Milton Paradise Lost
Milton, John., Newton, Thomas., Young, William., James, Joseph. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. By John Milton. From the Text of Dr. Newton. In Two Volumes. With the Life of the Author. [Six Lines from Dryden] Vol. I[-II].. United States: William Young and Joseph James, Chesnut-Street, 1787.
James Joyce Ulysses
Joyce, James. Ulysses. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Archaeology Mosaic find
References to Homeric themes in Bob Dylan songs.
The film O Brother where art thou?
