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This conception—which would serve as a standard of composition and comparison not only for ancient Greek authors and exegetes, but also for their counterparts in later periods and other lands—can be clarified by applying philosopher Panayot Butchvarov’s idea of generic identity.
31 Ιαν 2024 · What the ancient Greeks saw in The Iliad and The Odyssey were rather models of mostly individual human behaviour both to imitate – and to avoid like the plague. Perhaps politicians embroiled in current warfare can take a lesson or two from these.
3 Οκτ 2024 · Both The Odyssey and The Iliad highlight Greek values such as honor, bravery, loyalty, and the importance of fate. In contrast, modern-day values often emphasize individualism,...
Most Greek values are found within the context of the legends of the Odyssey and the Iliad during the Dark Ages. Homer, the author of both the Odyssey and the Iliad, contributed into Greek culture by showing values in writing that Greeks thought of themselves.
Homer, (flourished 9th or 8th century bce, Ionia?), ancient Greek poet, presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Though almost nothing is known of his life, tradition holds that Homer was blind. The ancient Greeks attributed to him the great epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
For the Greeks of the fifth century BCE and thereafter, the Iliad and Odyssey, these two seemingly all-inclusive and symmetrical songs, were the creation of the Master Singer called Homer, reputed to have lived centuries earlier.
In antiquity, the Greeks applied the Iliad and the Odyssey as the bases of pedagogy. Literature was central to the educational-cultural function of the itinerant rhapsode , who composed consistent epic poems from memory and improvisation and disseminated them, via song and chant, in his travels and at the Panathenaic Festival of athletics ...
