Thursday, July 31, 2014

THE UNIFIED POETIC TRADITION OF EPIC

image credit: Muse Kalliope (Calliope) Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston
; 5th C. Attic Red Figure Pyxis,
Hesiod Painter ca 460 - 450 BC 

























EPOS

…the conspicuous differences between the poems of Hesiod and between Hesiod and Homer existed in tension with the unified poetic tradition of epos… ~Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania 


odyssey driven by wrath and weaves
Hesiod Homer and nepenthes


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