Monday, December 8, 2014

Reading Question

  1. Find three heroic epithets. Explain how you think these epithets were useful to the singer of poems in the Greek oral tradition.
My three heroic epithets are 1. The red-haired king (used for king nestor) 2. Odysseus gleamed like a god 3. The shinning goddess (Circe) 
I feel that these epithets were both used to elogate the story by a bit (as they are slightly over used) introduce characters and what they looked like and so that the poet could have a few seconds to remember where they are in the story so they don't stutter or skip a bit.