So much of who and how we are flows from the idea of Homer. Our culture may be Judeo-Christian in its religious and moral grounding, but it is Greco-Roman to at least an equal degree in these and other domains. If the Greeks and Romans looked back to Homer as the author and founder of so much of their identity—and they did—then it is unsurprising that settling the Homeric Question has long been something of a scholastic Holy Grail for our civilization.
