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The Illiad predates the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War by a millennium. They are not peer works at all. The peer of the Illiad from a different culture would
by namaria 3y ago
The Illiad predates the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War by a millennium. They are not peer works at all.
The peer of the Illiad from a different culture would be the Jewish sacred books. And both, together with Theogony, are derivative of traditions that stretch two more millennia to Enuma Anu Enlil and Gilgamesh.
- pyuser583 3y agoThe copyright notice on the Iliad says it is “generally regarded as being composer around the 6th Century BCE, and is therefore in the public domain.” So it’s around the same time as the art of war and Tao te Ching.
- namaria 3y agoSeems like I mistook the eastern classics for second century CE works for some reason. My bad. But you're not all the way right. This copyright notice you're reading is out of date. Scholars currently think Homeric texts are likely to be 9th-8th century BCE works. Anyway, that would make them all roughly contemporary, yes. Thanks for pointing that out.