Homeric psychology
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I discuss various issues centered around the notion of soul and death in Homer: the extent to which the homeric texts and archeological artefacts like tombs etc. may be regarded as evidence for certain beliefs; the concept of a plurality... more
REVIEWED BY: • H. Bannert in: Wiener Studien 116, 2003, p. 291, • S. Evans in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.11.32, • D. Donnet in: Les Etudes Classiques 71, 2003, pp. 197–198, • S. Halliwell in: Greece & Rome 51, 2004, pp.... more
ZEUS’ INTELLIGENCE IN THE DERVENI ORPHIC POEM (OF 18.1): φρήν or νοῦς? ABSTRACT In order to complete the lacuna of verse OF 18.1 of the Derveni poem, which alludes to Zeus’ intelligence, the terms φρήν and νοῦς have been proposed. To... more
TO READ THE PREVIEW SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE PREVIEW SCROLL DOWN According to the centuries-long analysis of Homer by the idealist philosophers of Greece, the venerable bard’s recondite conclusion in the ‘Iliad’ is that Mankind is the... more
The aim of this paper is to understand some meaningful aspects of the Socratic use of Iliad X 224 in Plato’s Protagoras and Symposium. In these dialogues the Homeric reference appears in different contexts, but Plato’s Socrates applies it... more
Der vorliegende Band leistet eine philosophische Untersuchung des Begriffs Ethos (ἦθος) bei Homer. Traditionell schenken die Homer-Interpreten der konkreten Bedeutung des Begriffs allein in Bezug auf die Tiere Aufmerksamkeit und sprechen... more