No Shit.
Pretty much every heroic journey story told in the Western tradition in some way, shape or form is influenced by Homer.
Here's another shocker that will blow Dad29's mind: Twain was also influenced by the Book of Exodus (Get it? Odyssey ... Exodus ... both journeys from one point to another ... ) -- Huck Finn being a kind of American Moses: taking a trip down a river (wasn't Moses found drifting down the river as an infant? and isn't Cairo both a city in Illinois and Egypt?) to free a slave(s) ...
Tune in next week as Dad29 wrestles with what James Joyce's 'Ulysses' was based on.
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'Dad29 Discovers Comparative Literature'
Or, 'Oh Dad29, Where Art Thou?'
"Oshkosh' Best Blogger", eh?
My, my.
I sure find I'm reading here more than expected. But then, Dad29, you and I have rarely seen eye to eye.
I'm sure you're devastated that dad29 disapproved.
That's all you got, Dad29: "My, my."?
Tisk. Tisk.
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