The Oxford History Of The Classical World

(22. 304-5) Hector loses, and yet he still wins immortal fame. He wins it because of the quality of his life and of his death. T ...

The frameworks of time and place may again prove a way of bringing out some of the 'thematic geology'. The handling of the time- ...

this broad geography: Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred cit ...

C. The cave appears to have housed a cult of Odysseus, which must have been inspired by the story of the hero's return home as t ...

marital bedroom which Odysseus himself made immovable around the stock of a mighty olive. 'They then gladly went together to bed ...

Odysseus (Book 23). But it is not only loyalty which is tested in the Odyssey. It is an overtly moral poem in which villainy mee ...

Homeric studies from 1795 for the next 140 years or more: the dispute between so-called 'analysts' and 'Unitarians'. In 1795 F.A ...

Odysseus And Circe. Greek artists, like the playwrights of comedy, could take a relaxed view of mythical occasions. This cup is ...

The Cyclops' Cave. A unique scene, on an Athenian vase of about 480 B.C. showing the giant Cyclops (Polyphemus) blinded by Odyss ...

means of this system Homer had at his disposal a noun-epithet combination to fit all forms of the names of all his main characte ...

himself takes charge of the guest at once; but here there is a wedding feast in progress and Telemachus is met by Menelaus' henc ...

instantaneously sprung into mature existence. And, unless it is maintained that all of Homer's rivals, earlier or contemporary, ...

so the entire flat land was dried up with Hephaestus burning ... Hephaestus and Achilles rejoice in the drying blast: on the oth ...

mountains-their constancy is conveyed by the traditional language. The sun rises each day in familiar terms; Achilles remains sw ...

surely be the same. The oral poetic tradition has created, by a long process of addition and rejection, an amalgam. In matters o ...

divine, they have laboured to produce theological consistency and system, the actual religion of an actual historical moment. He ...

Odyssey are the kind of works which I have argued for in this chapter then that is an important thing to know about some Greeks ...

Greek Myth And Hesiod (By Jasper Griffin) Myth Everyone is familiar with some Greek myths: that Oedipus solved the riddle of t ...

interesting than modern people, but who were not gods. The mythologies of Egypt and Mesopotamia are not much concerned with hero ...

in his own way, and the audience did not feel committed to accepting what he said, however fascinating, as necessarily true. Som ...