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Homer: A Home For The Epic Poet

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A place for thoughts, links, quotes, ideas, and poetry about the works and life of Homer.

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Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him. (sententiaeantiquae.com)
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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.

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