If the Iliad and the Odyssey were written during this time period, the general population would absolutely hate it and not understand it. The only exception to that would be people who enjoy that kind of literary beauty like English majors and those who are poets and are more emotional and think more deeply about literature. The Odyssey and the Iliad are, as I think we often forget, poems. They are just a little longer than most and I think that people in the society of poetry would enjoy them very much. I refrain from saying that the whole literary community would enjoy them because there are those in such a group which only enjoy more solid and concrete works.
I found the Iliad and the Odyssey very difficult to read when I read them. But that could be because I was taking excessive notes on them and it did not make it fun at all. But I also think that the books would not fully be accepted, permitting that they are understood by a vast amount of people. There is a lot of relationships and treatment toward women in the books that would be viewed as sexism which were not viewed as such during that time period.
According to Hume, we would find the beauty in these works and there would be a general consensus that they are beautiful and a worthy production of art. However, these works would eventually become less and less read except by a select group of people, like how literary classics today are only mostly read by English teachers or majors or mature individuals. However, to look at Hume as a person: he grew up in a rather wealthy household so he could not see what the lower class was thinking of art. Therefore, his view is inherently skewed.
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