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Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and sexual pleasure. Wife of Hephaestus, and lover of Ares. Apollo, god of the sun, light, knowledge, healing, plague and darkness, the arts, music, poetry, prophecy, archery. Son of Zeus and Leto, twin of Artemis. Ares, god of war. Lover of Aphrodite. Driven from the field of battle by Diomedes (aided by ...
Diomedes is one of the main characters in the Iliad. This epic narrates a series of events that took place during the final year of the great war. Diomedes is the key fighter in the first third of the epic. According to some interpretations, Diomedes is represented in the epic as the most valiant soldier of the war, who avoids committing hubris ...
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 of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
[25] [c] In Odyssey 3, Nestor breaks Jørgensen's law in giving a detailed account of how Zeus executed the wrath of Athena against the Greeks on their return from Troy. [27] Helen also breaks it in Odyssey 4, by naming Aphrodite as the cause of her infatuation with Paris ; in the same book, Menelaus breaks it by crediting Athena with leading ...
Aegiale was married to Diomedes, who, on his return from Troy, found her living in adultery with Cometes. [4] According to some sources, Aegiale had multiple lovers, including a certain Hippolytus. [5]
Helen demurely obeys Aphrodite's command. [226] In Book V, Aphrodite charges into battle to rescue her son Aeneas from the Greek hero Diomedes. [227] Diomedes recognizes Aphrodite as a "weakling" goddess [227] and, thrusting his spear, nicks her wrist through her "ambrosial robe". [228] Aphrodite borrows Ares's chariot to ride back to Mount ...
The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.
In Book 6, she makes sure that Nausicaa meets Odysseus elsewhere on the island by coming to her in a dream and inciting her to go to the river to wash clothes. Odysseus is in a horrid state of nudity and grime when he initially meets Nausicaa, but Athena gives Nausicaa the courage to stand her ground so that she can get around to helping him.