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Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), another warrior-king, famed for his cunning, who is the main character of another (roughly equally ancient) epic, the Odyssey. Patroclus ( Πάτροκλος ), beloved companion of Achilles.
Part of a series on: Ancient Greek religion; Origins. ... List of Homeric characters This page was last edited on 13 February 2025, at 04:11 (UTC). Text is available ...
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
One sentence character form The Illiad. Classicwiki If you reply here, please ping me. 22:10, 28 November 2018 (UTC) @Classicwiki:, sounds reasonable, provided we do something with the asteroid instead of simply deleting it. Could there be a section of the Homeric characters article for things named after them?
Apollodorus gives a list containing seven names, [7] as well as mentioning five other Oceanids elsewhere. [8] Of these twelve names, eight match Hesiod. [9] Hyginus, at the beginning of his Fabulae, lists sixteen names, while elsewhere he gives the names of ten others. [10] Of these 26 names, only nine are found in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymn, or ...
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
[2] [3] The emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus (r. 217–218) is known to have used sortes Homericae properly speaking, where a verse was chosen by lot that supposedly foretold his fate that he would not last long on the imperial throne. [4] The "Homer Oracle", or Homeromanteion, was a method of divination found in Greek Magical Papyrus 121. The ...
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