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"...

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...

flowers, grown in soil that was once soaked with the blood of the titan Kronos. Arrogant in his divinity, however, Glaucos rejects Circe in favor of the...

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...

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...

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

 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...

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

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...