Homeric Poems - A Complete of Jumble

Homeric epics have been written down several centuries after the trojan war supposely took place. So even these are two poems only, it kind of makes sense, in a way, to think of them almost like historical novels. They're full of phrases that we wouldn't use ifwe horses and chariots or whatever else. But then they'l also be phrases that we'd inadvertently find themselves in there.