randHesiodgave to the Olympian gods their familiar characteristics. Few today would accept this literally. In the first book of theIliad, the son ofZeusandLeto(Apollo, line 9) is as instantly identifiable to the Greek reader by his patronymic as are the sons ofAtreus(AgamemnonandMenelaus, ...
randHesiodgave to the Olympian gods their familiar characteristics. Few today would accept this literally. In the first book of theIliad, the son ofZeusandLeto(Apollo, line 9) is as instantly identifiable to the Greek reader by his patronymic as are the sons ofAtreus(AgamemnonandMenelaus, ...