Homer’s epics (very popular at the time of Jesus) ..were the NT authors

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affected at all by Homer? The Odyssey
a youth named Elpenor, not very remarkable for sense or courage, who had got drunk and was lying on the house-top away from the rest of the men, to sleep off his liquor in the cool. When he heard the noise of the men bustling about, he jumped up suddenly and forgot all about coming down by the main staircase, so he tumbled right off the roof and broke his neck, and his soul went down to the house of Hades.

Acts 20
Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.
Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him [and brings him back to life]. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!"


*later in The Odyssey, Elpenor'd death is attributed to "bad luck"

*In Acts, the name Eutychus means "lucky" in greek
 
Any God of the universe would give men everywhere myths and stories that hint at or foreshadow His existence and His truth. Echoes of God can be found everywhere in ancient religion, myth, and literature -- and Homer truly was one of the greats. Nevertheless, the Bible says that God has now "fully revealed Himself" through his son, Jesus Christ.

Plenty of people have fallen asleep in church, but without the assistance of alcohol. A direct connection between these two stories is at best a stretch.
 
It's not actually known if Homer was the author of these tales (he was blind and so probably couldn't write), he wasn't a writer but instead was an entertainer that remembered epic poems and stories and repeated them for an audience, his 'stories' could have come from a number of different sources and people, however when they were written down a few hundred years after he died they were attributed to him. It is likely that parts of the stories or poems came from short well known stories that had a 'moral', these would have taken different forms as they were re-told and re-worked by different people therefore, a similar story appearing in Acts 20 could be coincidence, or just another re-telling of a popular story from a common source.
 
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