Indeed. The reputations of Virgil and Homer rise and sink relative to each other periodically. I guess that a scholar of these matters could say what factors ca

Indeed. The reputations of Virgil and Homer rise and sink relative to each other periodically. I guess that a scholar of these matters could say what factors cause this. Virgil seems to have had the greater reputation during the Enlightenment--does his stock rise when society feels a greater attraction to order, and Homer's when the order gets to feel burdensome?