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The Ilyad from Homer's perspective is a story from an ancient civilization. They Mycinean culture that had existed in that part of the Mediterranean collapsed during the bronze age collapse. Homer lived in a period called the Greek dark ages. The Ilyad is about a culture several hundred years older (and more advanced) than the culture in which Homer lived.
The video might mention this idk I didn't watch the whole thing.