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...

above, as well as epithets in Homer). When James Joyce uses the phrase "the snot-green sea" he is playing Homer's familiar epithet "the wine-dark sea"...

them to take place in the Atlantic Ocean. Copanello Homer, Odyssey, 5, 270 Homer, Odyssey, 6.204 Lattimore, Richard (1967). Homer's The Odyssey, Book 6...

narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy. After they ate the lotus, they would forget their home and loved ones and long only to stay with...

parents of Homer. The two best known ancient biographies of Homer are the Life of Homer by the Pseudo-Herodotus and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. In the early...

herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed...

is accidentally killed by the poisoned spear. Guilty, Telegonus returns home with Odysseus's wife, Penelope, and son Telemachus. Having lost her hero...

that I should be her husband". (Homer, Odyssey, Book IX.32; trans. A.T. Murray; Loeb Classical Library 1919). In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus tells Alcinous...

An animal epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal. Epithets may be formulated as similes...

Homer, the Alexandrian geographer Strabo criticized Polybius on the geography of the Odyssey. Strabo proposed that Scheria and Ogygia were located in...

surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze" where the "cliffs run up shear." Homer does not say anything about where the island was located, but later writers...

Harvard University Press, pp. 11-12; Dalby, Andrew (2006), Rediscovering Homer, New York, London: Norton, ISBN 0-393-05788-7, pp. 186-187. Parry, Milman...

The War against the Goddess Hidden in Homer's Tales. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781594777523 – via Google Books. Homer, Odyssey 10.77-96 Boko, Jasen (June...

Look up slur or epithet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have...

The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by American classicist Richmond Lattimore, published in 1965. Lattimore's faithfulness...

Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer and Stanley Lombardo, page 299: "... From Ilion the wind took me to the Cicones In Ismaros...

two epithets of his own, in the Aeneid: pater and pius. The epithets applied by Virgil are an example of an attitude different from that of Homer, for...

 11. Homer, Iliad 1.13 (Lattimore 1951). Homer, Iliad 1.122 (Lattimore 1951). Moore, C. H. (1921). "Prophecy in the Ancient Epic". Harvard Studies in Classical...

"illegal and organised by fascists". In Poland during the Polish People's Republic, communist propaganda referred to the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) as...

numerous epithets of Zeus (titles which are applied to his name) indicate the diversity of the god's functions and roles. A number of these epithets, called...

obsequimur» (often quoted with the form iacentes). Delphic maxims Epithets in Homer English words of Greek origin Greek language List of Latin phrases...

a goddess in her grief Tzetzes, Antehomerica 356-358 Dares Phrygius, History of the Fall of Troy 13 Homer, Iliad 19.291-95 See, e.g., Homer, Iliad 2.688–94...

Delphi. Homer uses for chthon the epithets "euryodeia" (broad-seated) and "polyvoteira" (all-nourishing) which can also be used for the earth. In some plays...

(Ἐνοσίγαιος), Enosichthon (Ἐνοσίχθων) (Homer) and Ennosidas (Ἐννοσίδας) (Pindar), mean "earth shaker". These epithets indicate his chthonic nature, and have...

The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by English poet Alexander Pope. It was published in five volumes between 1725 and...

different counterparts (i. e. δ or λ in Greek, θ in Etruscan). In the Iliad and Odyssey, Homer uses several epithets to describe Odysseus, starting with...

In Arcadia Demeter had the epithets Erinys (fury) and Melaina (black) which are associated with the myth of Demeter's rape by Poseidon. The epithets stress...

JSTOR 630637. S2CID 161700684. Virg. Aen. viii. 416, &c. Homer, Iliad, 18. 373–379 Homer, Iliad, 18. 417–421 Homer, Odyssey, 7. 91–4 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses...

Odysseam, 1.300; Ausonius, 26.2.27; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26 Homer, Odyssey 8.267 ff Homer, Iliad 18.382 Hard, p. 202 Stuttard 2016, p. 86. Slater 1968...

euphemisms. In a review for London Review of Books, Colin Burrow described Wilson as a "moderniser", particularly highlighting her translations of epithets into...