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Was The Odyssey like the Bible for Greeks?

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The closest thing to the Bible for the ancient Greeks was Hesiod's Theogony — “the birth of the gods.” It tells the story of how the universe began, and how the Olympian gods came to power. And how they had to fight to keep that power. read more

The reason the Greeks revered The Odyssey for its aesthetics rather than its spirituality is threefold: (1) In the Hebrew Tradition, one common belief was that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible. read more

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer were not considered the equivalent of the Bible by the Greeks. Although they were introduced as inspired by the Muses, that was not plenary verbal inspiration, nor did Greeks at any period believe in the literal inerrancy of the Homeric poems. read more

So first, the Exodus and Odyssey both show people returning to places where they used to live. In the Odyssey, this is much more direct, as it is a story of how the man Odysseus having fought in the 10 year-long Trojan war is returning back to his home through 10 more years of hardship and detours. read more

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