The connection between the Bible, the Work, and the Homeric epics

I think I see how to describe the connection now between the Bible, the Work, and the Homeric epics. The first two are obvious, but the Homeric epics were hard to place. I think it simply has to do with spiritual warfare. Temptation, illusion, fear, desire, deception, playing roles, danger, trusting what is higher, pure goals, endurance, sleep vs. awakening, struggle, conflict, friction, challenging of pride, of vanity, of self-will . . . development... These and others similar are all central themes of the Homeric epics; they are also central themes of Christian spiritual warfare.

The Bible gives you the foundation of everything and all you need. The Work gives you the practical level "what you do" of this warfare/development. I was going to add a book then on spiritual warfare - a classic one - such as Gurnall's Christian in Complete Armour, but I realized, as worthwhile as it is, it is a rehash of the Bible and it is "less than" what the Work offers. Then it became clear that the Homeric epics fill out the trinity of influences in that they have something the Bible and the Work don't (that sounds strange and wrong when I put it that way because ultimately the Bible has everything, yet as far as teachers and general revelation play into this, and the Bible gives warrant to access such things, the Work and the Homeric epics have things the Bible doesn't offer): the Homeric epics give a visual language of spiritual warfare (kings in action on the Way) that informs both the Faith and the Work in a powerful way, providing not only a higher visual language but an ethic.

One caveat is: a person needs to know the pure doctrine of the Bible as part of their foundation (from a good source like Berkhof's Manual of Christian Doctrine). But that then is merely priliminary as an influence (though mandatory and foundational itself). The Bible, the Work, and the Homeric epics are primary influences.