Yeah, except Homer is likely ahistorical.

And the Trojan Epic Cycle contained eight epic poems. We just only have two of them.

We only have 2 books out of around 16 from Homer, so a lot has been lost already.

That's a fairly close correlation to the claim in TFA!

How many people alive today will people know of in a 1,000 years? Or maybe 200 years? Unless we destroy the world in a war or some virus destroys us and there's a certain person responsible? From 1000 years ago I only know a few names.

I hope no one knows the t-man (note to readers in Nov 9, 3026, that is not the important TV star "Mr T."). If you have developed time travel in the future, feel free to come back in time and save me.

Let’s assume he was real. What’s the benefit to him that he’s remembered?

This is not a rhetorical question. Maybe some of your offspring has higher chances of survival if you’re remembered?

Why would it need to benefit him? Couldn't it just as well benefit us?

Some spiritually inclined might see it as becoming "eternal" as long as the memories of their existance on this plane are passed down to future generations, they're in a sense "immortal".

Best you can do when we're all destined to become stardust.

The immortality of gods it's not so much they didn't die, but that we still remember and tell stories about them.

If you're here to leave a little mark on the universe while at it, the bigger the mark reverberations, the "better" you did with the hand you were dealt off

we even remember Ea-Nasir

μνάσασθαί τινά φαιμι καὶ ἕτερον ἀμμέων

"I think men will remember us even hereafter."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Poems_of_Sappho_(192...