The Homeric epics in my view are about transition. The bronze age stories of glory were a thing of the past, in sharp contrast with a world emerging from centur

The Homeric epics in my view are about transition. The bronze age stories of glory were a thing of the past, in sharp contrast with a world emerging from centuries of chaos. Literacy was emerging again, and with it these memories were being re-shaped for a brave new world of iron. Hence the contradictions and anachronisms.