In Book XVIII of the Iliad, Homer describes the construction of Achilles' shield by Hephaestus, god of technology. This shield is the symbol of Achilles, the central hero of the Homeric epic. At the same time, the shield constitutes a totality, wider than the epic itself. In a poetic ...
Hesiod: “Works and Days”, “The Theogony”, fragments of “The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae”, “The Shield of Heracles” (attributed to Hesiod), and fragments of various works attributed to Hesiod. Homer: “The Homeric Hymns”, “The Epigrams of Homer” (both attributed to Homer...
In the 16th book of Homer's Iliad, Zeus seems destined to fulfill his promise to Achilles' mother, Thetis, to give glory to Achilles.
When you go in, do so separately, not both together; I will go first, and do you follow afterwards; let this moreover be the token between us; the suitors will all of them try to prevent me from getting hold of the bow and quiver; do you, therefore, Eumaeus, place it in my hand...
Caroles, or carols as we now call them, always used to be danced and sung, but at some point we lost the dance element. The origins go way back to the ancient Greeks and to thechoros, or circular sung dance. Remember the dancers on Achilles’ shield in Homer’sIliad? The magic of...
Interpreting the Representations on the Shield of Achilles In Book XVIII of the Iliad, Homer describes the construction of Achilles' shield by Hephaestus, god of technology. This shield is the symbol of Achilles, the central hero of the Homeric epic. At the same time, the shield constitutes a...
Caroles, or carols as we now call them, always used to be danced and sung, but at some point we lost the dance element. The origins go way back to the ancient Greeks and to thechoros, or circular sung dance. Remember the dancers on Achilles’ shield in Homer’sIliad? The magic of...
. Hence she prevailed on Helius to sink down into the waves of Oceanus on the day on which Patroclus fell (xviii. 239). In the Iliad she appears as an enemy of Heracles, but is wounded by his arrows (v. 392, xviii. 118), and in the Odyssey she is described as the supporter of...
KRONOS & RHEA (Homer Iliad 15.187, Hesiod Theogony 453, Apollodorus 1.4, Diodorus Siculus 5.68.1, et al)OFFSPRINGSee Family of ZeusZeus was a son of the Titans Kronos (Cronus) and Rheia and a grandson of Ouranos (the Sky) and Gaia (the Earth). He was a brother of the gods Poseidon...
of men and gods is alleged to be Zeus, in another he is Oceanos: “Ocean sire of the gods, and Tethys the mother that bare them” [Homer,Iliad14.201]. (151) We oppose dogmatic conceptions to one another when we say that some declare t...