Homer and the western tradition

Not Homer Simpson, but Homer, to whom The Iliad and The Odyssey are attributed.  The phrase "bite the dust" has been around for awhile, several thousand years before Freddie Mercury and Queen sang about another one.  It's in the Iliad like so many other fragments of honor, duty, bravery, and heroic adventure that form the basis of countless stories we all have seen and heard.  Read both works and count the number of times a passage triggers something you have seen in a movie or read about in another work.  You may be surprised how many references add up until "another one gone, and another one gone."