In his book Caesar and Christ, historian Will Durant writes: “That a few simple men should... have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
દાખલા તરીકે, પ્રાચીન ગ્રીક કવિ હોમરે લખેલા મહાકાવ્ય ઇલીયડ અને ઓડીસીને લો.