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Purification in Homer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. M. Gillies
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool

Extract

The religious value which we are entitled to attach to instances of purification in the Homeric poems is extremely small. It is important at the outset of the inquiry to get away from pre-conceived ideas founded on later religious practice, in the light of which the Homeric examples are instinctively interpreted. Chapter and verse from fifth century and later parallels is not necessarily authority for reading a religious significance into the account of an apparently secular act in Homer.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1925

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References

page 71 note 1 Il. 1. 314 sq.

page 71 note 2 E.g. Ap. Rh. Arg. 4. 710.

page 71 note 3 Il. 23. 44.

page 71 note 4 Il. 14. 171.

page 71 note 5 Od. 18. 170.

page 72 note 1 Il. 1. 449; 10. 572; 16. 230; 24. 303; 3. 270.

page 72 note 2 Od. 2. 261; 3. 338,440,464; 21. 270; 17. 58.

page 72 note 3 Il. 10. 460; 21. 273 (cp. inter alia, 4. 119; 5. 115). Od. 10. 355; 17. 240; 13. 212; 20. 112. Il. 1. 34. 339; 7. 314; 9. 205 sq. (cp. inter alia, Od. 8. 59; 9. 552; 12. 362; 13. 181).

page 72 note 4 Il. 1. 15, 374. Od. 7. 145.

page 72 note 5 Il. 6. 266.

page 73 note 1 Od. 4. 48; 8. 450; 10. 360, 451; 17. 87.

page 73 note 2 Od. 23. 131, 153; 24. 365; 5. 86.

page 73 note 3 Il. 7. 425; 16. 669; 18. 345. Od. 24. 45. Il. 24. 708. Od. 12. 10; 24, 187.

page 73 note 4 Il. 23. 258; 24. 802. Od. 12. 10. Il. 2. 41 (cp. Aesch. Pers. 201: Ap. Rh. Arg. 4. 664; Arist. Frogs 1339.

page 73 note 5 Od. 15. 256.

page 74 note 1 Od. 22. 451 sq.