"My question is, what if Homer's Iliad and Odyssey had been written not thousands of years ago, but in this day and age? Disregarding that literature would be very different because of it, and assuming they were written as exactly the same pieces, how would we react? How would we react according to Hume's logic?"
I don't think they would be regarded in the same light as we view them today. I think the reason why they are so remarkable to us now was because literature was very young back then and while they are great, they were also the first to be great. If they were written today, I feel like they wouldn't get nearly as much attention as they do. After all, take a walk into any old bookstore. You can easily see a flood of literature on the market. Anything can be published. If it were written exactly the same, I do not think many people would give it the time of day. It would be too complicate for people to read compared to something else. I think the fact that because they stood the test of time and survived make them great, in that aspect.
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