Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Introduction
- Homeric Communities
- Homeric Religion
- Homer and History
- Homeric Geography
- Homeric Materiality
- Key Topics
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Homeric Religion
from Part II - Homeric World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Introduction
- Homeric Communities
- Homeric Religion
- Homer and History
- Homeric Geography
- Homeric Materiality
- Key Topics
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The characters in the Homeric poems perform various ritual acts (sacrifice, prayer), which would have been familiar to Homer’s audience. But the epics also reveal an intimacy between gods and mortals through divine interventions and interactions that belong to a bygone heroic age. Nevertheless, the poems are deeply engaged with issues of the nature of the gods and the human condition and these views had a profound impact on subsequent Greek thought.
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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer , pp. 245 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020