You can read the odyssey profitably to you can keep your kids spellbound. You may need to explain a few of the poetic twists of phrase and and to some of the sentence or so a litle might be a little bit convaluted. But it's like reading one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. As we're talking about a, homer is really good it stood, the way i would answer it as an economist, as it stood the test of time. It's not because people just had a religious desire to read homer, although you argue you should,. cause it's part of who we are.