Ah good points, in fact some points that deepen our understanding of Homer.

Main one you might have thought about is that the gods of Homer are also deeply flawed (habitually full of hubris themselves!).. I think it was Nietzsche who said that the gods wish they could be Achilles or Odysseus?

Now.. who are the conflicting partys in every Homeric arc? Often at least 2 gods..

(I have not thought about Moby Dick this way either, or the "Greek system" in those days.. palace economy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_economy

In The World of Odysseus he noted that most distribution was internal:[5]

  All the production work, the seeding and harvesting and milling and weaving, even the hunting and raiding, though carried on by individuals, was performed on behalf of the household as a whole ... and from the centre they were redistributed ...

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