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Did People Hate the Homeric Age?
A lot of people thought that Gladstone was unable to evaluate the Homeric Age objectively because he was just such a Homer fanboy. On the other hand, he also tried really hard to Christianize the Homeric age and the Greeks in a way that's just deeply anachronistic and problematic. He spent a lot of time trying to make these parallels between the two cultures. For example, one thing that Gladstone insisted on was the idea that the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer were rooted in some basic historical reality in events that truly took place.
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