Document Type : Original Article
Author
PhD in Philosophy of Art, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
Abstract
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey can be recognized as the transitional stage between the oral period of the Ancient Greek religions and its written period when the Greek myths –that indicate a polytheistic religion– were recorded and organized with the assistance of the mind and the imagination of a myth-making poet who attempted to find befitting answers to the questions of the man inhabiting the ecosystem of Ancient Greece regarding religion, relation between mortals and immortals, and also social and ethnic ethics. It is clear that Homer was not concerned with logical reasoning; because he is a poet that is the offspring of his myth-making and god-fabricating era and as a poet with a mind completely accustomed to myth and imagination, and stuck in a realm between limbo and earth, he is rather seeking to provide a description and a report about gods, heroes, events, and their means and equipment proportional to the understanding, knowledge and the existential order of his myth-oriented contemporary people. The existence of these elements indicates that although there are currently several works at hand to help inquire into the Ancient Greek religions, but undoubtedly the Iliad and Odyssey are excellent works in this regard because they have recorded and immortalized the religious and ethical traditions and the Olympic gods of the myth-making people of Ancient Greece in the form of epic poems.
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