Homer was a poetic genius who lived in the eight century B.C. Some of his more famous works being the Iliad and the Odyssey. The text claims that these great epics helped shape the Greek spirit and Greek religion. Stating that “Homer was the earliest molder of the Greek outlook and character” (Perry 37). Many of his epics are your classic hero story. With “Homeric heroes, who strove for honor and faced suffering and death with courage” (Perry 37). The popularity of his worked lasted centuries later and are still referenced in present day literature.

Homer’s epics were hugely influential on Greek mentality and humanism. Inspiring, what would become, a fundamental attitude of the Greek mind. Often times, the messages in works had lasting affects