There are many scholars who reject the idea of embracing the world described in the Iliad as political. Through a narrow reading of the Iliad, a few scholars may conclude that it has no direct inference to or ideal of the classical polis defined in the light of Aristotle's teaching. However, every activity that is performed either by individuals or groups can be classified as a political activity. Epic poetry like the Iliad is uniquely capable of illuminating the society that produces it and such thought can be applied in the field of politics rather than just confined to the society. First, the paper will give a basic explanation of characteristics that qualify the world in the Iliad as politics. Second, mainly Agamemnon's authority over people and such authority being challenged will be evaluated in the light of politics with many sub-activities among heroes: the political aspects of authority, relations among "demos ", divine intervention, elite relations, and political ethics. Lastly, it will discuss how those elements in the Iliad foreshadow the incoming political structure of nascent federalism. .

             The conclusion that Homeric poem is "pre-political " springs out from the notion that politics is strictly tied to the emergence of solid political structures and institutions. Many Homeric scholars have proposed that Homeric poems do not have any trace of a polis in its story. John H. Finley, a Homeric scholar, mentions that political decisions must bind to a society and political units must have a solid government (Hammer 20). He views that the world depicted in the Iliad certainly does not possess the concept of solid governmental units or states that qualify the Iliad as having a significant political dimension outlined by many Homeric scholars. Instead, they suggest that the fundamental situation of the Iliad is not a political one but a personal matter (Hammer 21). For them to accept Homeric world as political, the scholars strongly stress the idea of the institutional forms and roles that emerge later in the real history to be present: notions of citizenship, a system of governance, and a solidly defined process that solves a political issue between the individuals.