Interesting that Homer Simpson has been everybody's first thought about this thread, and makes me wonder if the collected scripts of The Simpsons will not be our Iliad.
The Iliad was a poem, probably started life as a spoken recitation, which is my excuse for suggesting that old fave of mine, Bob Dylan as a candidate for our Homer. His collected lyrics constitute quite a compendium of 20th century styles and subjects and in the post-apocalyptic world in which nobody reads books anymore, we can gather round the bonfires and recite Dylan songs, in a scene that would be familiar to those old Greeks...
The original poll to this thread misses its target a bit: although it has 14 options, six of those options haven't won a single vote, and it conspicuously lacks a "None of the Above" option, which to judge from the posts here, would probably rival S King as the winner.
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