Seems like Journey to the West is referenced and copied so much in Eastern cultures without any fear of it getting old or going stale.
Is there something similar for Westerners? Is there some Shakespearean story we keep re-imagining again and again without shame?
The Illiad and the Odyssey for sure. Pretty sure Homer is just the concept of a person that we think might have written them because all those stories were primarily told orally and told slightly differently with each recalling
The Odyssey for sure, for a given value of “west”.