Why Homer is so great? 호메로스는 왜 위대한가?

그리스의 서사시 작가 호메로스가 왜 매력적이고, 왜 위대한 지에 대해서 서술해보았습니다.
이번에는 영어권 구독자에게도 다가가고 싶어서, AI음성을 사용해서 영어로 비디오를 만들고 한/영 자막을 달았는데요. 한국어 구독자님들은 조금 불편하시더라도 재미있게 봐주시길 부탁드립니다.

What kind of charms did Homer and classical tragedies have that Westerners used them as the basics of education beyond the Hellenistic era and the Roman Empire and even the Middle Ages and early modern times?

In fact, Homer's works are a little different from classical tragedies, and very different from any other works of art today. This is because Homer has a unique sentiment that only the epics of his time have.

For example, Achilles, the ‘main character’ of the Iliad, already knows that he will die in this war from the moment he first appears. Because the oracle is like that. But he doesn't care at all about his imminent death, and only because Agamemnon has taken away his woman, who is his share, is furious and withdraws into his own camp.

The characters in ‘Iliad’ express all the trivial and big emotions humans usually feel, but no one has fundamental questions about life. Even death is accepted as coming when the time comes.

-곽작가
인문학일러스토리 1,2 (지오북)
지식인의 교양 사람편 생각편 (책읽는수요일)
비잔틴제국비사(들메나무)