The Myth of Homer

Homer is not quite the same as Dante, where Dante's got an orthodoxy to theology that hems in what he can do with the divine comedy. I don't think he feels it as a constraint because he believes it's true, but nevertheless, he doesn't have the type of poetic freedom that Homer has more of. There's a sort of aesthetic fit that the good that you and the beautiful all run together, and so narrative becomes a means of recognizing what is likely to be true about the gods.