>>3965651Everyone does because lot of people really misunderstand him. Calling him a nihilist isn't really acurate at all, he talks a lot about it and even praises it, but not in the sense of that we should be nihilists, the opposite of that actually. I won't go over that now, but basically, he wasn't all about "Oh, world has no meaning, let's just fuck arround till we die".
Of Homer, Illiad is by far the more important one, it was like Bible to people of antiquity. And well, Bible is the one most influential book ever written, it pretty much shaped the middle ages and was not all that less important afterwards.