Examines the theme of heroism in Homer, focusing on the Iliad. Examines the relationships between the poem's smallest parts and its largest themes. The book is divided into two sections. The first section looks at how the small components of the Iliad, the epithets and similes, …
The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together i…
"The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together …