Homeric Epics on the Notion of Justice in Ancient Greece’s Dark Ages

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Homeric epics; the Odyssey; ancient Greece

Abstract

The concept of time in the early Greek culture was infused with mythological, theological, and historical imagination. The Homeric epics described a straightforward empirical sense of time understanding and life perception, and the Archaic imagination of time perception was primarily found in the two mythological-religious traditions of the Hesiodic and Orphic genealogies, in accordance with the progression from the Homeric to the Archaic periods. Eleusine, the Odyssey’s “island of happiness,” represents the potential for mortal immortality, which appears to run counter to the theme of “mortal decay” that permeates the Homeric epics. Though Menelaos’ status on earth is described in the epic, it appears that it is not the ultimate happiness but rather a memorable grief that will always be with him.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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