The Homeric Scriptures of the Greeks questions

1. How were Homer's writings Greek creation myths? Homer's writings were not based in historical fact, but rather had to do with the Greek gods and how they had a hand in the Trojan wars. 

2. What function did the Iliad and the Odyssey serve for the people of Ancient Greece?  Homer's writings provided the Ancient Greeks with a rudimentary understanding of religion. 

3. Would the power of Ancient Greece be as great if the majority of their literature had survived? The power of Ancient Greence would have been, if anything, greater. We would have a better understanding of their culture, and it is likely that more of their ideas would have survived. 

4. How did Homer's work survive? Homer's work was so popular only a few centuries after it was made that it was translated in to different languages. There were thousands of copies made, so it was inevitable that it would survive. 

5. What role do the gods play in the lives of humans? If the mythology of Greece is to be believed, then the gods had quite a lot to do with the lives of humans. The gods controlled a fair amount of everything big going on, and some wars were faught due to interference with humans.