Why Do We Start With the Idiod?

The great o, the western world programme that mortimer j adler and robert hutchins of the university of chicago developed. They're a their reading list almost in its entirety. We've dropped out some of the scientific works that aren't as relevant now as maybe they once were - like harvey's theory of circulation. But we read these books in order, in chronological order. And so you might be wondering at this point, why are we talking about this right? The where were i wanted to go with us is to ask you, scott, why do we start with the iliad? Why? Why is this important?"