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What Was Homer Honing in the Odyssey?
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract We summarize the data provided in Homer's the Odyssey concerning Odysseus' journey and suggest a completely new view of what was Homer trying to convey to us. We suggest that Homer was honing the idea of synergy between rules (determinism) and chance (randomness), an idea deeply rooted in natural processes as well in mathematics.
Anastasios A. Tsonis +2 more
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Concerning the Influence of the Iliad on the Worldview of Alexander the Great [PDF]
HypothekaiThis article examines the widely accepted scholarly view that the Iliad played a crucial role in shaping Alexander the Great’s character and his deliberate emulation of Achilles. Early accounts of his deep reverence for Homeric heritage and the heroes of
Alexander A. KLEYMEONOV
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The Composition and Transmission of the Homeric Poems: A Summary
The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2022 If the modern oral hypothesis, beginning in the 1920s (see 17 below), about the composition of early Greek epic poetry is correct (a ‘paradigm shift’ in Homeric studies according to Casey Dué), there were many poets who over centuries, beginning perhaps ...
Jerome Moran
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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A Flight Back to Ground: Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth as Rape into Consciousness. Symbolic Rape and Literal Rape in Persephone’s Myth [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract Patricia Berry’s interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone myth, and her concept of rape into consciousness, illuminate intrapsychic dynamics. However, this symbolic lens may inadvertently distance us from the devastating nature of literal rape—a reality the Homeric Hymn encapsulates.
Barbara Cerminara
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Dearness and death in the Iliad
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019 Readers have often pointed out that representations of dying warriors in the Iliad, despite the impersonal, unreflective, heterodiegetic form of narration, are typically suffused with a certain pathos. What do we mean by “pathos” in this context?
Eric Cullhed
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 421-437, October 2025.Abstract This essay focuses on Iris Murdoch's final book of philosophy, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, and Anton Chekhov's final and greatest play, Three Sisters. The essay uses Murdoch's ideas to present a new reading of Three Sisters as a working‐out of a metaphysics by which people find the breaks, the limits, of their pictures of the world and ...
Ross Collin
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Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 425-439, September 2025.ABSTRACT Researchers now understand that the Great Recession stemmed from a “systemic leadership failure,” involving various entities such as the government, financial institutions, investors, homeowners, and regulators. Consequently, traditional leadership approaches of the time came under intense scrutiny, necessitating a shift in leadership ...
Faidon Theofanidis +2 more
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Два комментария к проблеме текста и интертекста Слова о полку Игореве
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2012 Two comments to the problem of the text and intertext of Igor's Tale The article offers an original interpretation of one of the controversial lexeme – “smaga” within the meaning of a “thirst,” but not a “fire” or “flame” and discusses the ...
Antonina Szelemowa
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The Iliad digital twins of the ocean: opportunities for citizen science [PDF]
ARPHA ProceedingsIn recent years, there has been growing interest in digital twins (or virtual representations) of the environment. Programs in the European Union and the UN are investing in digital twins, particularly those of the ocean (DTOs). While citizen science has
Stephen Parkinson +20 more
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