Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him.
Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him.
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In the recent poll prompted by Dio Chrysostom’s anecdote of Philip asking which hero Alexander would be, Odysseus won by a bit of a landslide. I can’t say this completely surprises me, …
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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.
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