Psychology Today | 17.12.2025 02:09
For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be Greek. They functioned much as sacred scripture does in religious traditions: not as dry information to be absorbed, but as living narratives to be inhabited, returned to, and drawn from across a lifetime.
