Religion In The Odyssey And The Aeneid

Religion did much more than just guide behavior. Religious impact on literature is impossible to overstate. The most universally recognizable books, the Bible and the Qur’an, are religious texts. Religious influence on literature was not limited just to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Practically every civilization had great literary works coming from religion. The Egyptians had the Book of the Dead, Hinduism had vedas, Greeks and Romans had a plethora of epics, most notably the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The vast majority of the relevant literature in early civilizations came directly from religion.
All in all, major themes of the course were government, education, war and religion. Government was a defining characteristic of civilizations,