List of Homeric characters information

This is a list of principal characters in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς), the leader of the Myrmidons (Μυρμιδόνες), son of Peleus and Thetis...

unexplained cause of death = (†) Catalogue of Ships Achaean Leaders Trojan Battle Order Trojan Horse List of Homeric characters List of children of Priam Wikimedia...

the Odyssey Greek mythology Homeric psychology Homer's Ithaca List of Homeric characters Sortes Homericae Tabulae Iliacae Telemachy The Golden Bough Trojan...

The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three Ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The...

in the Homeric Greek as κλέος ἄφθιτον / kléos áphthiton and Vedic Sanskrit as श्रवो अक्षितम् / śrávo ákṣitam. These two phrases were, in terms of historical...

human prayers. Homeric prayers, which often signal moments at which the fictional characters face extreme threats, determine the events of the plot. In...

lightning bolts of Zeus and Helmet and Bident of Hades. Arges (Ἄργης). Brontes (Βρόντης). Steropes (Στερόπης). Cyclopes (Homeric), a tribe of one-eyed, man-eating...

Schliemann found the remains of numerous earlier settlements, one of which he declared to be that of the city of Homeric legend. Subsequent excavations...

preserved in the Homeric Hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle, in lyric poems, in the works of the tragedians and comedians of the fifth century BC...

was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BC and, by the mid-6th century BC, had become part of the Greek literary canon...

were measured and a place of supplication and refuge. Olympia apparently also had an early tradition of twelve gods. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (c. 500 BC)...

Homeric scholarship is the study of any Homeric topic, especially the two large surviving epics, the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic...

the age of the great Library of Alexandria, and his epic incorporates his research in geography, ethnography, comparative religion, and Homeric literature...

Aeschylus's Oresteia). The Homeric legend of Troy was elaborated by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. The fall of Troy with the story of the Trojan Horse and...

of Priam Homeric Neleides Sons of Aegyptus Suitors of Helen Theban kings / Queens Greek mythology Ancient Greek religion Classical mythology List of Greek...

be a personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with...

and Homer's works: "Gogol's epic revives the ancient Homeric epic; you recognize its character of importance, its artistic merits and the widest scope...

(/ˈhiːliəs, -ɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized...

causing the complete loss of his ship and companions, and delaying his return by ten years. Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn. In Plato's Timaeus...

and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen of the...

mentioned as a favourite drink of Greek peasants. Kykeon is mentioned in Homeric texts: the Iliad describes it as consisting of Pramnian wine, barley, and...

mother of Persephone, a fertility goddess and resurrection deity. One of the most notable Homeric Hymns, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, tells the story of Persephone's...

of the epics of Homer was dictation from an oral performance. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western...

first Olympics, in 776 BC, and the composition of the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. The fall of Mycenaeans in the Bronze Age collapse was attributed...

number of officials. In the Homeric poems, the word form is anax (ἄναξ), often translated in English as "lord". Some inscriptions with a list of offerings...