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To understand the Iliad and the Odyssey, you need to know something about the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks. If you have studied Greek myths, you know that the ancient Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses: a god of war; gods of nature; and gods of music, poetry, dancing, hunting, and other arts and activities.
Thomas D. Seymour, Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-III, 1.3; Cross-references to this page (6): Aristotle, Rhetoric, Aristot. Rh. 3.14; A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AULAEUM A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ORA´CULUM; A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), SA´RCULUM
on the analysis and influence of the Iliad, and Odyssey. The first four of the eight essays in this present collection analyze episodes from the two Homeric epics.
The Odyssey is often thought to be an attempt to rival the Iliad in scale (the Cyclic poems, to judge by the numbers of books recorded, were notably shorter); and, as [Longinus] 9.12 observed, it forms a fitting sequel, filling in the story since the tale of the Iliad with remarkable economy.
1 Δεκ 1995 · Abstract. It has been easy to take the apparently detached viewpoint of the two early Greek epics as actually objective, a window on a ‘Heroic Age’, on a ‘Homeric society’ and its values ...
Professor Adkins finds the social structure of ancient Greece inimical to the development of an adequate concept of moral responsibility. He shows, in a most interesting manner, how Greek values changed as the needs of society changed.
