Homer

I was reading a review of the movie Troy earlier today. One of them talked about how the actors were all campy, as well as the dialogue and characters. The review mentioned how Peter O'Toole tried vainly to bring his role to life. It said ," O'Toole tackles Priam as though he's doing Shakespeare."
Shakespeare would have been honored to be mentioned in the same breath with Homer.
I wondered if the author of said review understood that this story and the character Peter O'Toole play are over 3000 years old. It's the oldest story in western literature. It's older than the Bible. So old that when Homer first began telling it he didn't write it down, because they didn't have silly things like books yet. He sang it. The Iliad wasn't wrote down for over 250 years after Homer died.
I haven't seen the movie yet. But I love the Iliad. There's a reason this story has been around for as long as it has been.
They'll be a day when all the stories we have come up with and told in any form over the last 100 years will be long gone and forgotten.
But Homer's little story will still be read and remembered.